Please note, there are two application deadlines. The deadline for overseas applicants is 31 July 2025, and for home applicants, it is 29 August 2025. For more details, click here.
This programme is currently under development and may be subject to change
Key information
Duration: 1 year full time
Institution code: R72
Campus: Central London
UK fees*:£16,100
International/EU fees**: £28,300
The course
Project Management (MSc)
Our MSc Project Management provides graduates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to become competent Project Managers, a growing area of importance throughout business, industry and government today. While many project management programmes seek to train students on a single framework of project management, our degree offers the opportunity to understand a broad range of different frameworks and to relate these to different industry sectors.
You will explore complex project management issues and address challenges with advanced skills to meet the growing demand from multi-sector organisations seeking project management professionals. The course enables you to develop your learning on the importance of entrepreneurship, innovation, and the appreciation of core values of ethical and sustainable enterprises in global economies. We also embrace the strategic focus on developing multi and intra disciplinary characteristics of modern project and programme-based environments.
Graduates of this programme enter a wide-variety of industries, professions, government, where demand for employees with project management expertise and capabilities to address the complex and changing organisations is high.
You will enjoy studying at our well-equipped central London location and work with our supportive academic staff to realise your full potential.
Our London base is located in the heart of Bloomsbury, central London. We have our historic base at 11 Bedford Square, a dedicated suite in the University of London's impressive headquarters, Senate House, opposite the British Museum and modern teaching spaces in Stewart House. These three buildings, just a few minutes apart, provide an inspiring and vibrant environment to stimulate creative and critical thinking.
This module provides an advanced and comprehensive review of current and future technological trends. Individual competence in enabling the processes of innovation and implementing change are essential for leaders and managers in today’s technology organisations. This module provides you with an opportunity to understand technology innovation and change – its drivers, risks, consequences, and people’s responses – and manage the interlinked processes of creativity, learning and critical thinking in the context of product and process innovation.
This module introduces the fundamentals of practical accounting, finance and risk management, all areas which are critical in business. Furthermore, the learning on the module will aid your understanding of business performance and how it relates to key internal and external decision- making processes.
You’ll learn how to use accounting information as an effective tool for decision making, control and investment and will look closely at corporate finance and project funding practises to gain an understanding of how projects are financed and what underlying risks to consider and what techniques can be used to mitigate these.
Information Technology Project Management presents an essential backbone of any modern organisation as the use and development of technology are increasingly intertwined with organisational operations. This module will provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge of IT projects planning, estimation and evaluation and emphasis will be on project management of IT projects and not on the technology itself. Emphasis will also be placed on the most popular and well used approach in industry which is 'Agile' and then learning about how this might be applied through a methodology in 'Scrum'.
The module is a specialist, yet multidisciplinary module examining international operations and quality management, and sustainable development, sustainability and green environmental practices in an ever-changing global world. The module further provides you with knowledge about the relationships and interconnections between international operations and sustainability, corporate governance, ethics, concepts of justice and wellbeing, integrated modelling processes, conservation, economic and social dimensions for growth and development, governance, technology tools and frameworks and resilience. You’ll consider both past practices and approaches of sustainable development, while examining the current and emerging challenges relating to The United Nation’s Global Sustainable Development goals for organisations and communities.
Projects come in all shapes and sizes and the size of the project can often add to the complexity with large projects often more strategic in nature. On this module you’ll focus on strategic infrastructure projects using case studies and real- world examples to identify challenges and trends of project delivery. This module also focusses on the international nature of projects including the impact on jurisdictional frameworks, the role of the public and private sectors and a strategic view of the key drivers which impact of the project in the planning and appraisal stages.
This module provides you with the opportunity to investigate, analyse and make recommendations for a business project related to general management areas, developing the skills to critically evaluate and select the appropriate method to conduct the project. Analysis will then be communicated in the form of a project brief and 10,000-word report.
This module aims to extend, and enhance your knowledge in the derivation, from corporate strategy, of business change programmes and their comprising projects, and then the chartering, structuring, and governance of those collections of projects and programmes within businesses. There is a strong emphasis on understanding the context of the project and programme and the extent to which this can be influenced or shaped by the initiation and agreed planning processes and outputs.
This module is delivered to build personal effectiveness in the business environment. You’ll study essential business skills related to communication, employability, and discipline-specific academic literacy providing an opportunity to successfully engage with learning on the course, including reading for and participation in workshops and completion of coursework assignments. You’ll learn to distinguish between scientific and non-scientific research and the appropriate use of different research methods and the module provides the foundation for the Independent Business Project to be conducted in the summer term.
This module will describe the key principles of academic integrity, focusing on university assignments. Plagiarism, collusion and commissioning will be described as activities that undermine academic integrity, and the possible consequences of engaging in such activities will be described. Activities, with feedback, will provide you with opportunities to reflect and develop your understanding of academic integrity principles.
Over the 12 months of this course, you’ll take six taught course units, attend various seminars and workshops and complete a final project by dissertation.
You will have access to a personal tutor, along with support from module tutors, and a final dissertation supervisor during your studies.
Assessment is carried out by a variety of methods, including coursework, group and team projects, industry focused case studies, online tests, final written examinations, business case preparations and presentations.
The changing landscape and demand for Global Project Managers is growing and will continue to grow. Our Project Management degree opens up the possibilities for multiple routes of employment, re-deployment and advancing existing employment opportunities.
You will graduate with more than advanced project management knowledge, you will develop as a numerate and project oriented thinker with skills that are immediately transferable to a diverse range of sectors. Your independent project work, team projects, presentations, skills and learning experiences will help you acquire skills that are useful in a range of job roles. There are also opportunities through our business, technology start-ups, innovation and enterprise and professional practice modules to prepare for any industry or aim to venture onto a start-up business.
Our Project Management degree offers a practical and project-based approach to learning and follows a syllabus designed in partnership with national and global businesses to enable and apply the skills they are seeking, enabling our students to make an impact when they graduate.
Some of the industries our past graduates have secured employment are:
Consultancy Firms
Information and Digital Technology Companies
Automotive and Product Development Organisations
Manufacturing and Aerospace Industries
Transportation, Logistics and Global Supply Chains
Services and Oil and Gas Industries
Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare
Utilities and Service Sector Businesses
Banking and Investment
International Banking and Financial Services
Further Research and Development in Private and Public Sector
Senior positions in public and government sectors relating to the national economic and industrial development
* and ** These tuition fees apply to students enrolled on a full-time basis in the academic year 2025/26. Students studying on the standard part-time course structure over two years are charged 50% of the full-time applicable fee for each study year.
Royal Holloway reserves the right to increase all postgraduate tuition fees annually. For further information, see fees and funding ,and terms and conditions.
** This figure is the fee for EU and international students starting a degree in the academic year 2025/26. Find out more
*** These estimated costs relate to studying this particular degree at Royal Holloway during the 2025/26 academic year, and are included as a guide. Costs, such as accommodation, food, books and other learning materials and printing, have not been included.
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