Bachelor of Science in Project Management

The bachelor of science in project management degree equips you with the technical and strategic expertise to manage wide-ranging projects from inception to completion across global markets utilizing strong business knowledge along with leadership and team development skills.

Successful companies need strong project managers to mold and materialize their ideas. Acquire the skills and expertise required to succeed in project management with a Project Management BS degree at Texila American University, which prepares you to lead and deliver projects to success within the specified duration, requirements, and budget in the contemporary business landscape.

The Project Management BS Degree Program has a rigorous curriculum, enabling you to gain expertise to improve management outcomes encompassing scope, time, cost, risk, communications, quality, procurements, resources, and project integration.

The BS in project management certification program trains you with the foundations of theoretical and technical aspects required to analyze business needs, determine appropriate solutions and evaluate the implications of organizations based on the efficacy of managing projects. Also, skillfully design communication strategies with stakeholders and strategically build strong teams.

With a constant demand for qualified, competent, and talented project management professionals, pursuing a bachelor of science in project management degree Programme puts you on the path to an electrifying and worthwhile career.

Credit System: One credit represents 10 notional hours of learning. This learning includes classroom, supervised and self-directed hours, assessment time, workplace training, assignment writing, online learning and fieldwork. A normal year of fulltime study (including contact hours and self-directed hours) is 1200 hours (120 credits). Any variation in hours from this requires specific justification. Similarly, any variation from 120 ZQF credits in one fulltime year requires specific justification. Credit units shall not be used for awarding qualifications under the ZQF.

Students applying to Bachelor of Science in Project Management at TAU Zambia campus are selected on the basis of their academic, personal, and extracurricular abilities. Each student will be assessed based on the educational background, age, and intended course of study. Additionally, students must have the intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities to meet the requirements of a successful career in their respective fields.

• Formulate an integrative business project through the application of multidisciplinary knowledge
• Describe the function of management, the project management process, consumer behaviour, and how marketing contributes to organizational growth and customer value.
• Familiar with current digital technologies and Information Technology (IT) management trends.
• Describe and apply best practices for effective Human Resource Management system
• Demonstrate awareness of Business Law, Business Environment contexts of global business practice
• Describe Project Management systems
• Employ Entrepreneurship and Mergers and Acquisitions models to select appropriate projects for a business enterprise
• Demonstrate firm growth through strategies such Security Analysis & Portfolio Management,
• Apply Material and Process Management Systems
• Implement Maintenance Quality Management
• Conduct Business Research using appropriate research methods and statistics

• Total 16 weeks in the Trimester (2 courses per trimester)
• 4 Modules Per Course, 3 Units per Module & 6 (5-7) Chapters in each Unit = (4*3*6)= 72 Chapters
• Instructional hours through University Campus: Per course 14 hours  (2hrs x 1days x 7 weeks)
• Suggestive Lecture Duration: 1 Module in two Classes (2 hrs per class/ per week)
  (Live Lectures – Other than Lusaka Students will receive the transmission of the weekly lectures at the Facility Centre or LMS platform (as per the availability) and shall also have the privilege to join at TAU Campus for any ongoing class at their convenience)

• On-Campus program is delivered in Semester pattern and On-line mode of program is delivered in Trimester/Block pattern.

• Uniquely Designed Learning Methodology
• Outcome Based Academic Delivery
• Continuous Academic Support
• Enhanced Learning Management Systems
• Technology Enabled Services
• Block Based Learning, Dedicated learning of one subject at a time, focuses on more immersed learning
• Capstone Project, promote integrated learning and understand the connections between various subjects
• Article review promote critical thinking and analytical skills among the learners
• Contextual Project Work, gives an opportunity to the students to relate what is being taught into the context of the real world, and thus eliminating the questions of “Why do I need to learn this stuff?”

Many opportunities exist in the expansive field of Project Management nationally and globally.

• Project Manager
• Program Manager
• Project Consultant
• Business operations manager
• Project Coordinator
• Risk Manager
• Change Management Consultant
• PMO (Project Management Office) Analyst
• Supply Chain Manager
• Operations Manager
• Construction Manager
• Agile Coach or Scrum Master