Build your skills step by step with USM’s Project Management Certificate series, from mastering foundational frameworks to confidently leading complex projects. These courses give you the tools, strategies, and real-world application to drive organizational success and advance your career.
Regular Price (when purchased individually): $2,060.00
Bundle Price: $1,899.00
Introduction to the Practice of Project Management -Spring 2026
- Overview of frameworks, tools, common risks and mistakes, and identifying skills and competencies for organizational success.
- 10 hours of classwork and 4 hours of offline work
- 14 hours/1.4 CEUs
- 1/24/26, 1/28/2026 from 9am - 2:30pm
Effective Project Management - Spring 2026
- This course equips you with essential project management tools, practices, and skills to scope, plan, and execute complex projects under tight deadlines and limited resources while preparing you for the next certificate course, Implementing Project Management.
- 15 hours of classwork and 6 hours of offline work
- 21 Contact Hours / 2.1 CEUs
- 3/4/2026, 3/11/2026, 3/25/2026 from 9am - 2:30pm
Implementing Project Management - Spring 2026
- This advanced course in the USM Project Management certificate series teaches project leaders how to successfully implement project management tools in their own projects while gaining organizational acceptance and alignment with best practices.
- 15 hours of classwork and 6 hours of offline work
- 21 Contact Hours / 2.1 CEUs
- 4/29/2026, 5/6/2025, 5/13/2026 from 9am - 2:30pm
Who Should Attend?
Anyone considering the field of Project Management, as well as functional managers running projects and assigned project leaders.
Additional Information
After successfully completing all 3 courses in the Project Bundle, the learner achieves a micro-credential and is awarded a badge (see below).
To achieve a Certificate, the learner must complete all 3 courses and an additional elective (any open professional development course of their choosing).
Micro-Credential
This badge acknowledges that learners:
- Successfully completed the University of Maine System (UMS) Project Management pathway (Levels 1, 2, and 3).
- Completed 56 hours of comprehensive project management training that included an overview of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) frameworks, skills, and competencies required to manage a project.
- Demonstrated competencies in individual work plan, team organization, identification of tasks, estimating resources, setting schedules, managing risk, and completion of a plan.
Instructor
Margaret Van Note
Questions? Please contact usmpdp@maine.edu 207-780-5900
