Track and build your skills in project management
Our BS in Business, Project Management program offers a variety of courses that can help you develop career skills. So how do you know which courses are best for your professional growth? Start by setting goals. Make a list of career-related skills and identify any knowledge gaps you may have. Then look for the courses that can help you gain those skills or build on your knowledge. As you complete courses, track your progress and practice regularly so you can stay on top of the latest industry trends. Our Career Development Center can help you with your resume and job search as you learn each new skill.
Develop professional traits that can help you pursue your career
Cultivating professional traits is another means to help you stand out in the workplace. For the BS in Business, Project Management program, we focus on helping you to become:
- A creative problem-solver
- An effective communicator
- Compassionate
- Detail oriented
- Ethical
- People oriented
- Resilient
Project management skills taught in our BS in Business program
This program helps you to learn an understanding of a wide array of project management services, including developing project strategies, synthesizing project requirements, facilitating effective communication, keeping projects within approved budgets and assessing project performance in a wide range of professional environments.
Leadership strategies
- See the big picture and develop a plan to achieve long-term goals
- Understand how to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders, including customers, team members and senior management
- Identify and mitigate risks to a project and make decisions under pressure
- Adapt to change and unexpected challenges
- Motivate and inspire others to achieve common goals
Operational expertise
- Understand and pay attention to details to help ensure that projects are completed to the required quality standards
- Understand issues around change, unexpected challenges, and identifying and fixing problems quickly and efficiently
- Prioritize tasks and activities to help ensure that the most important work is done first
- Manage time and organize projects effectively to meet deadlines
Technical expertise
- Have deep knowledge of a specific area of project management, such as budgeting, scheduling or risk management
- Create and manage schedules, track progress and identify delays to help ensure that projects are completed to the required quality standards
- Identify and mitigate risks to a project and resolve problems effectively
Take the next steps. Make your plan to earn your degree.
What are the BS in Business, Project Management admission requirements?
Applicants to the BS in Business, Project Management program must provide the following information for admission:
- Admission application – no application fee required
- High school diploma or equivalent
- A transcript of any reported GED
- 4.5 credits eligible for transfer. See Sophia Admissions Pathways as an option to obtain credits.
- Applicants under the age of 24 must also submit a high school transcript verifying graduation
- A valid, government-issued form of photo identification
SAT and ACT are not required for admission.
FlexPath admission requirements
Applicants for our FlexPath self-paced learning option must also meet the following criteria:
- High school diploma or equivalent and 45 transferable college credits
- The recommended minimum GPA is 2.8 OR at least 100 applied transfer college credits. Those with a lower GPA and less than 100 applied transfer college credits may have the option to satisfy GPA and/or transfer credit requirements through successful completion of gen-ed courses through our affiliate Sophia prior to starting a Capella degree program.
Transition to FlexPath: Applicants whose GPA is below the FlexPath admission threshold may be considered once they successfully complete at least two GuidedPath courses (or eight credits, whichever is greater). Those learners will also need to meet the requirement of 45 transfer credits to be approved for the transition into FlexPath.
International student requirements
If you live outside the U.S. or aren’t a U.S. citizen, you may be considered an international student.
To meet the requirements for Capella admission, you must:
- Earn the minimum score on an acceptable test for proof of English proficiency
- Attend an internationally recognized institution
- Provide transcripts for evaluation
Learn more about international student admissions.
Are you looking to earn your bachelor’s degree online but have questions about the cost? Many students are looking for ways to save money on their education and online learning can be a great way to do it.
Here are just a few of the potential savings you can enjoy when you earn your degree online.
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$15,000 scholarship toward your bachelor’s degree
Apply for a $15,000 Capella Progress Reward, a scholarship to help fund your bachelor’s degree.
Transfer credits
Learn more about Capella’s transfer credit process. You may be able to transfer previous college credits to cover up to 75% of select bachelor’s degrees.
Federal grants
Capella University accepts federal grants, which are education funds that you may not have to repay. Find out more about federal grants and what’s available to you.
We offer two online learning formats, GuidedPath and FlexPath, so you can choose the one that meets your needs and learn on your time. Compare our learning formats or take our quiz to discover which learning format fits best with your learning style.
- GuidedPath offers a preset schedule and deadlines, with the freedom to study on your own time.
- FlexPath provides the additional flexibility to complete courses at your own pace and take one or two courses at a time, depending on your schedule.
Put your talents for people and projects to work with a program that provides foundational education in the processes, procedures, tools and techniques for coordinating and managing projects in organizational settings.
Our curriculum is designed to help you:
- Integrate and coordinate the interdependencies between professional accepted processes and knowledge areas
- Define and control the scope activities of a project
- Define the processes required to manage the timely completion of a project
- Apply the processes to complete the project within an approved budget
- Purchase or acquire necessary products, services or results from outside the project team
- Ensure that the project deliverable’s quality criteria are defined and that requirements are met and validated against a quality management system
- Help improve the likelihood and impact of positive events and decrease the likelihood and impact of negative events on a project
- Identify, analyze and effectively manage the people, groups or organizations that are impacted positively or negatively by the project
- Identify and manage timely and appropriate communications to all project stakeholders
- Organize, manage, motivate and lead the project team