Prepare for a professional role in the management of construction projects.
Bring complex construction projects to life with cutting-edge toolsets to meet global infrastructure demands.
“I believe I am above average, so I want to up my skills, and become a project manager”
This Masters of Science, MSc (in Construction and Project Management) is a graduate programme provided in affiliation between Westford University College (Dubai) and Abertay University (UK). This is an online based graduate program designed for leaners seeking to enhance their management skills and progress into construction fields. The course is delivered by a team of multi-disciplinary academicians and industry professionals with a curriculum covering technical management and entrepreneurial aspects of construction.
Learners in this program will learn how to manage construction projects of all sizes successfully and sustainably. The curriculum includes construction-related technical, management, and entrepreneurial themes. Learners will also be able to lead projects in senior roles while learning the technical and practical elements of managing a successful construction project from start to end.
About MSc. Construction & Project Management
Total Credits: 180 Credits
Modules: 7
Duration: 12-15 Months
Delivery: Online synchronous learning and onsite workshops
What is MSc. Construction and Project Management?
Upon completing the program, students will be able to face the significant challenges of managing complex construction projects for the built environment, critically assess project proposals for building developments, research issues of environmental effect and sustainable design with construction practices and provide construction solutions efficiently while balancing considerations such as planning, budgeting, environmental safety, personnel, and construction materials.
Furthermore, Learners will develop their research skills by completing a dissertation on a construction topic supported by our academic staff. The triple-certified Programme provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for working professionals to get a renowned higher education qualification in Operations and Project Management.
Why MSc. Construction and Project Management?
Learners will develop their research skills by completing a dissertation on a construction topic supported by our academic staff. The triple-certified programme provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for working professionals to get a renowned higher education qualification in Operations and Project Management.
Health, Safety and Environmental Management
Innovation in Design
Project Management
Research Methods
International Business and Management
Building Information Modeling (BIM) & u Asset Management
MSc Dissertation
Program Highlights
Address the major challenges of managing complex construction projects for the built environment.
Critically evaluate project proposals for building developments.
Investigate the issues of environmental impact and sustainable design within construction practices.
Deliver construction solutions efficiently while planning, budgeting, environmental safety, manpower and construction materials.
Lead in senior positions of leadership and decision making.
Understand all technical and practical aspects needed to manage a successful construction project from start to finish.
Target group for this program
Graduates
Professionals in Construction Industries
Individuals seeking Career Advancements
Professionals Seeking Professional Development
Modules
The program will be offered completely in Online synchronous learning.
To be awarded MSc. Construction and Project Management, the learner is required to complete all the modules listed below:
Module 1: Environmental Management
This module will equip learners with a set of practical management tools for managing environmental concerns in both the public and private sectors. Students can investigate the policy, legal, and ethical frameworks within which projects function, as well as build the skills required to lead diverse teams sustainably.
Module 2: Innovation in Design
This project module examines the theory and practice of discovering and executing product and system innovation in enterprises. It allows students to critically reflect on the analytic, design, planning, and evaluation tools provided in the curriculum and apply them to the design and construction processes of a project that involves creativity and simulates the real-world feasibility design stage of a Civil and Environmental Engineering project.
Module 3: Project Management
This module focuses on the complexities of project management as well as the tools and practices that enable effective management. Analyze a project failure and offer another course of action. Module information: Analysis and planning of projects; project management approaches.
Module 4: International Business and Management
This module focuses on the different approaches to the management of organizational resources in different international settings and on the practical challenges of cross-cultural management. Module content: Introduction: The theoretical background international business strategies; International and cross-cultural management; managing in an international context: culture and communications; Contemporary issues in managing international business
Module 5: BIM & Asset Management
This module investigates BIM principles, specifically: 1) discipline-specific BIM perspectives and 2) digital tools for central, efficient, and secure sharing of data/information on physical and functional characteristics of a structure, forming a reliable basis for decisions from conception to demolition.
Module 6: Research Methods
This module is designed to introduce postgraduate students to research methods and statistical analysis. Theoretical, historical, and statistical concepts are taught in lectures with hands-on practical lab sessions using both quantitative and qualitative techniques that allow students to put theory into practice.
Module 7: MSc Dissertation
Individual in-depth investigation of a particular aspect of the learners specialism.
Fee Structure
USD. 6800 (Inclusive of application and registration fee)
Awarding University
Abertay University, formerly known as the University of Abertay Dundee, is a public university in the city of Dundee, Scotland, with a strong focus on teaching and preparing its graduates for the world of work, combined with excellence in research and knowledge exchange. With roots going back to 1888, Abertay has always responded to the needs of industry, supplying a pipeline of graduate talent to work, lead and innovate across a wide range of sectors.
Abertay prides itself in offering an inclusive, friendly, and welcoming environment for it’s students and staff alongside first-rate teaching and excellent student experience. An ambitious, forward-thinking institution, it offers degree programs to prepare students for careers in the modern world.
Graduates have gone on to work for organizations including Apple, Google, BBC, Rockstar, Microsoft, Barclays Bank, and Coca-Cola, as well as the NHS and government departments.
Learning outcomes
Health, Safety and Environmental management
International Business Management
Project Management
Innovation in Design
Research methods & Desertion
Certification from CMI Chartered Management Institute
Reviews From Our Clients
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