BSc (Hons) Project Management
UCAS code: N213
The BSc in Project Management is a four-year degree with a year spent in industry. It will equip you with skills directly relevant to a wide range of business careers.
Projects are everywhere in organisational life: from delivering the Olympics; managing London Fashion Week; developing the latest iPhone or Nintendo console; responses to disaster situations; rebranding GQ magazine; or constructing Wembley Stadium, Delhi’s metro or T3 at Beijing.
In this video, staff describe the benefits of this exciting skills-based degree, and students who've taken project management courses at Lancaster describe how the courses and placement have helped them to develop strong employability skills.
With the high pace of social and market change, businesses must now focus on how to constantly adapt. They need to develop and launch new products and services efficiently and effectively to ensure they continue to deliver value and align with company strategy.
As manufacturing and service provision shifts oversees, national roles are increasingly project orientated with project management one of the fastest growing professions. Projects are today’s vehicles for achieving tomorrow’s change.
Managing projects
Why Lancaster?
This programme is unique to Lancaster with its focus on managing business projects and distinguishes itself by providing you with a highly employable skill set. Together with LUMS’s reputation, this scheme of study will guarantee that you are exceptionally placed to distinguish yourself to future employers.
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Four-year degree
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One-year placement in industry
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Develops key skills for employability
Managing projects places you at the centre of excitement within a company and places direct responsibility on you to ensure project success. As a project manager you will be self motivated, multi-tasking, quick witted, and people orientated. Management jobs can have limited outcomes; projects allow you to take control, supply end products and provide you with the satisfaction of a completed task. From start to finish a project can be your baby.
Employability
The LUMS Project Management degree is designed to equip you precisely with the skills to enter a managerial role confident that you can attain, on the ground, project results.
Programme focus
“Being able to take the theory and apply it yourself on placement was immensely valuable.”
Andrew Glover
Core areas on the LUMS Project Management degree are project management tools and techniques; project planning and control; change management; strategic decision making; and managing projects.
These courses provide practical transferable skills such as negotiation, presentation and report-writing skills. They are taught through case studies, business games, live projects and lectures and help you develop problem solving and logical thinking skills. They develop the strong leadership you will need to balance delivering project outcomes against the demands of time and cost, whilst ensuring long-term strategic impact.
Year in industry
You will spend a year in industry refining the skills you learn during the course and allowing you to leverage full value from the final year courses. This scheme of study, together with LUMS’ reputation, will guarantee that you are exceptionally placed to distinguish yourself to your future employers.
Requirements
A-level: AAB
General Studies: Accepted as one of 3 A-levels
GCSE: Maths (B) and English (B)
Scottish Highers: ABBBB
International Bacc: 34 pts overall with 16 pts from best three HL courses
BTEC: Overall grades DDD/DDM
IELTS: 6.5
Candidates offered places are invited to an open day.
