Online MBA in Project Management
21-33 months
Online
Tuition: GBP 13,200
Paid Monthly: GBP 520
Intakes: May 2026
Deadline: 4 May 2026
Course overview
The globally-recognised AACSB Accredited Online MBA in Project Management will teach you the skills to influence internal and external stakeholders such as peers, subsidies, agencies, partners and employees to successfully deliver on a project objective. Covering both theoretical and practical project management tools, learn a framework to help improve managerial and project decision-making.
The Online MBA in Project Management will teach analytical approaches to the basic principles of project management, focusing on clear-thinking strategies to manage challenges and dilemmas that occur during a project life cycle. Learn about portfolio management techniques and the importance of tracking key aspects of a project life cycle such as costs, quality, time and scope management. Enhance your team building, negotiation and conflict resolution skills and your ability to incorporate them into helping meet project deliverables.
Finally, the Online MBA in Project Management will touch on how to evaluate a finished project using a reviewing process of success criteria, performance indicators and other factors, to continuously improve performance with future projects.
Learning Outcomes Online MBA Project Management
- Analyse the principles, theories and practice of project evaluation and management
- Critically evaluate the project objectives of cost, quality and time and the trade-offs and interaction between these objectives
- Demonstrate understanding of critical human dimensions of project management.
- Apply a range of theories & concepts to analyse the operational challenges of managing projects
- Evaluate the costs & benefits of completed projects drawing lessons for future practice
- Explain and critically reflect on innovation and why it is crucial to competitive advantage and organisational success
- Conceptualise and critically explore the context and process of innovation management
- Analyse the innovation management in a variety of organisations using examples from the world’s most innovative firms
- Critically evaluate innovation management and provide recommendations for change demonstrating appropriate judgement
Why choose Edinburgh Napier University Online MBA
- AACSB accredited
- Top 4% of universities across the world
- Normal study route of 33 months and accelerated study route of 21 months available
- 11 specialist routes to choose from
- Assignments only. No exams.
- Flexible monthly payment plan
- Earn the same MBA as on-campus students and graduate in the UK
- Taught using the latest Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
- Study from anywhere, anytime – 24/7 access to study materials
- Personal UK tutor for academic support
- Earn a globally recognized UK MBA without the need to leave work or sacrifice career progress
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Online MBA in Project Management
Online MBA in Project Management
Accreditation
AACSB – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – is a professional accreditation organization in the USA. It was founded in 1916 to set a standard of excellence for the best business schools. Only 6% of the world’s leading business schools are AACSB accredited. AACSB is recognized worldwide as the highest standard of quality and AACSB-accredited schools, and graduates from these business schools are trailblazers in leadership, research and societal impact.
Assessment
All assessments are undertaken and submitted online. These vary for each module and may include:
- Reports/Essays/Case Studies
- End of Unit Progress Tests
- Data Analysis Reports (Data Analysis for Business Decision-making module)
- MBA Project
Within each trimester, whilst there is flexibility to work through the material at your own pace you need to be aware of the assessment dates as there is no flexibility in these.
If there is any question regarding the authorship of any submitted assessments, we reserve the right to require students to undertake an online viva.
Benefits
This Project Management course will teach you how to analyse the theories, practice and working principles of project evaluation and management, with a focus on how to critically evaluate key project objectives such as quality, time, cost and the interaction and trade-offs between them.
Develop your understanding of the human dimensions in project management, applying theories and concepts to this element to manage operational challenges and dilemmas.
Graduates from the Online MBA in Project Management can take on operational and project management roles across multiple functions and industries including construction, consulting, marketing, HR and more. It’s a versatile degree suitable for managers across multiple different functions and departments.
Career path
The University have seen their graduates gain successful employment in many different disciplines and as such have built their careers in a range of industries in the public, private and non-profit sectors.
Academic Progression
- PhD – Doctorate programme
- Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA)
Eligibility
- The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above plus 2 years work experience order to be eligible for this programme.
- We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient relevant work experience within the industry.
- If English is not your first language, you may need to undertake an approved English language test. You can discuss the available options with your personal academic consultant.
Core module
The module introduces a number of tools that can be used to measure the success, or otherwise, of an organisation – focusing on operations, supply chains and marketing strategy. Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard model will be the key model explored. This is a set of measures that gives a fast but comprehensive view of the business. The Balanced Scorecard endeavours to collate important elements that reflect a business’s strategic position e.g. product and service quality measures, product and service development time, customer satisfaction, productivity and so on.
Overall the module emphasises the concept of integrative nature of business across key areas and what matters most in the need and desire to build high performing organisations that can endure in the complex, global business environment.
The large majority of businesses today operate in a variety of economic environments and their leaders must make economic decisions taking into account market specific information. This module covers the most essential analytical tools required for economic decision making such as: the concepts of economic systems, profit and utility maximisation, demand elasticity, market equilibrium, market structures, macroeconomic objectives, government policies’ (monetary, fiscal and trade policies) tools and their impact on businesses etc.
Businesses also require funding from shareholders and lenders at the outset and subsequently need to profits and positive cash flows for investment. They are in competition with other businesses for funding, just as much as they are competition for labour and market share. On this course, you will learn to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages to the business of a range of sources of finance. You will also learn how managers’ report on the financial affairs and financial position of the business and how financial reports can be analysed to evaluate business performance.
The module will cover the following topics:
- Organisation Strategy and strategic Leadership
- Determining the strategic Direction: Mission Vision and Values
- Strategic decision-making in Practice
- Transformational Leadership Approaches and Emotional Intelligence
- The Leader-Follower Relationship
- Team Leadership
- Strategic decision-making in Innovative Contexts
- Creating Systemic Innovation
- Authentic and Sustainable Leadership
- Current Trends in strategic Leadership
Learning outcomes of the module
Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
- Examine and critique the underlying principles of key leadership theories
- Critically review how effective leaders foster an innovation culture in organisations
- Explore the dynamics underpinning the leader-follower relationship in organisations
- Review and critically the strategic role of leaders within organisations
The material covered in the module relates to two broad areas of study: the examination of organisational behaviour, including attitudes, perception, motivation, groups, teams and leadership; and understanding managerial processes, and the development of skills important in the management of people and processes – such as corporate social responsibility. Change management is increasingly important and therefore you will examine the topic by looking at both incremental and transformational change, and the importance of power, politics and conflict.
Focusing on the behaviour of people in a work environment, the module places an emphasis on understanding the vital role and importance of people in the change management process. You will develop an understanding of the dynamics of working organisations in a rapidly evolving business environment, specifically the significance of organisational culture. This in turn develops your ability to plan and carry forward sustainable system-wide change programmes.
Learning outcomes of the module
Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
- Apply organisational behaviour theory to the business context
- Critically analyse the factors influencing individual behaviour in organisations
- Evaluate the nature, role and tasks of people management and identify effective management practice and skills
- Identify and analyse trends in transformational change management in organisations
- Illustrate through analysis and synthesis a robust understanding of International Leadership, management theories and concepts
Data literacy and the ability to critically evaluate information are crucial skills for responsible business management. Data analysis is a process that involves the formulation of a research question and the acquisition and analysis of the data that is needed to help answer that question. In this module, you will be taken through the practicalities of developing a business research question and acquiring and analysing data to answer that question. You will learn about the key sources of business data and information and about how data is created for specific project purposes through survey design. You will learn about the practical steps that researchers must take to create useful business information from data and how to visualize this information in an understandable way. You will be equipped with the tools, methods, and skills required for acquiring, exploring, and analysing both quantitative and qualitive data.
This module will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to data for business & sources of data (primary and secondary),
- Developing business research questions (descriptive, normative and cause/effect),
- Primary and secondary data,
- Ethical aspects of primary data collection,
- Survey design and measuring concepts Quantitative Methods,
- Introduction to The Data Problem Solving Cycle (PPDAC),
- Sampling and data quality (validity, reliability, comparability etc.),
- Data cleaning and preparation,
- Exploring and analysing quantitative data (with excel or SPSS),
- Visualizing data to communicate business information Qualitative Methods,
- Deconstruction and reconstruction of Discourse,
- Thematic Analysis
- Critical Reflection on qualitative analysis.
The purpose of this module is to develop your ability to develop and implement a management report in the field of business management. Completing the management report will provide you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge, research skills, and analytical and conceptual tools that you have acquired while taking your taught modules. Your learning on this module is experiential and problem-based, with a focus upon you discovering, questioning, and critically reflecting upon a business problem. You are required to identify a business problem for one organisation, and to conduct an analysis of the organisation’s positioning in relation to that problem and to develop actionable recommendations to be presented to the executive board that are based on the findings from their analysis. You will be guided through the process in groups by experienced tutors, you will also be assigned to groups with other students that have chosen the same organisation.
Optional Module
The module content can be divided into two main components. Firstly, a discussion of key concepts and why innovation management is crucial in most organisations. Secondly an examination of the leading practical theory related to innovation management, in particular, this will include an in depth discussion of a conceptual model of innovation management. This model will outline the main contextual elements (e.g. innovation strategy, organisation structure, etc.) that affect the process of innovation management and also the process itself. This examination and discussion of innovation management will utilise materials (e.g. examples, cases, etc.) dealing with different kinds of innovation (e.g. product, service, internal systems and procedures, etc.) in a variety of organisations.
Learning outcomes of the module
Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
- Explain and critically reflect on innovation and why it is crucial to competitive advantage and organisational success
- Conceptualise and critically explore the context and process of innovation management
- Analyse the innovation management in a variety of organisations using examples from the world’s most innovative firms
- Critically evaluate innovation management and provide recommendations for change demonstrating appropriate judgement
The ability to manage projects is a key factor that influences successful managerial performance and all organisations need managers equipped with such skills. Project management is the application of skills and knowledge to deliver the project objectives. The aim of this module is to provide students with an overview of the theoretical and practical tools needed to successfully manage projects.
This module offers the framework and tools necessary to prepare participants for better decision-making in their future managerial roles. By using an analytic approach and relating ideas to the basic principles of project management, it will provide an introduction to the basic principles for thinking clearly about managerial problems and dilemmas when successfully managing projects through their complete life cycle.
The module will introduce project selection and portfolio management techniques. The project life cycle: time, costs and quality, will be reviewed along with scope management. Issues around team building, conflict and negotiation will be explored and the evaluation of finished projects will be consider by reviewing success criteria, success factors and performance indicators.
Learning outcomes of the module
Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
- Analyse the principles, theories and practice of project evaluation and management
- Critically evaluate the project objectives of cost, quality and time and the trade-offs and interaction between these objectives
- Demonstrate understanding of critical human dimensions of project management.
- Apply a range of theories & concepts to analyse the operational challenges of managing projects
- Evaluate the costs & benefits of completed projects drawing lessons for future practice
Course fee
Global:
- Course Fee: GBP 13,200
- Monthly Fee**: GBP 520
Africa & Emerging Market*:
- Course Fee: GBP 13,200
- Stafford Grant: GBP 2,700
- Net Course Fee: GBP 10,500
- Monthly Fee**: GBP 375
Canada Currency Options:
- Course Fee: CAD 24,680 / GBP 13,200
- Monthly Fee**: CAD 970/ GBP 520
+VAT if applicable
*Africa & Emerging Market : India, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Egypt, Nigeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, South Sudan, Libya, Zambia, Algeria, Tunisia, Angola, Gabon, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Ethiopia, Iraq, Yemen, and other African countries.
**Monthly instalments calculated based on the Course fee minus the Stafford Grant
Fees are determined by where applicants are currently working and residing
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