RITx Project Management Pathway
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Leverage your RITx Project Management MicroMasters® Program Certificate
It’s easy to apply your RITx MicroMasters program certificate in project management toward a graduate degree from RIT.
Accelerate your degree
Upon successful completion of RITx's Project Management MicroMasters® Program and acceptance to RIT, you may be awarded 9 credits toward the Project Management MS degree, the Professional Studies MS degree, or the Smart Cities Construction Management MS degree.
How it Works
Learners who successfully complete a verified MicroMasters program certificate and are accepted to RIT will be awarded up to 9 credits (depending on the program) toward select graduate degree programs at RIT, resulting in a lower-cost and accelerated master’s degree.
* Credits awarded for MicroMasters program completion may vary by program.
MS Project Management
Accelerate your Project Management Career
Project managers are critical resources to achieve innovation, strategic goals and deliver products and services to clients. The complexity, scale, and diversity of organizations globally requires project leaders that can translate vision into practice while adapting to the changing needs of markets and clients. The project management master’s focuses on the skills needed to be successful leading projects for a variety of organizations, industries, and product/service types.
Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete two additional project management courses, and four courses of your choosing tailored to your learning/career goals, plus a capstone project to earn an accelerated MS degree in Project Management.
MS Professional Studies
Shape your future with a interdisciplinary degree
With RIT’s master of science in professional studies, you customize your degree by choosing multiple fields of study to reflect—and create—your career direction. Combine your talents, interests, traditional or alternative higher education, work experience, and career goals to create a meaningful master’s degree highly regarded by industry and academia.
Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete an introduction to the degree course, six courses of your choosing, plus a capstone project to earn an accelerated MS degree in Professional Studies.
Limitless opportunity
Here are just some of the subject areas you may choose to study at RIT to serve as an area of concentration.
- Marketing
- Finance
- Applied Statistics
- Data Analytics
- Product Development
- Information Technology
- Lean Six Sigma
- Logistics
- Project Management
- Business Management
- Service Leadership
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Network Security & Systems Administration
- Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Technical Communications
- Sustainability
MS Smart Cities Construction Management
Propel your career in construction management
There is an urgent need to address aging infrastructure, energy efficiency in buildings (accounting for 40% of usage in the US), and new construction. Construction is key to a healthy economy, and effective management is key to construction initiatives that run on time, within budget, and with efficient use of resources. This degree will help you become equipped to manage clients, teams and projects of any size.
Upon successful completion of your MicroMasters program certificate and acceptance to RIT, you need only complete seven courses at RIT to earn an accelerated MS degree in Smart Cities Construction Management.