Certificate of Achievement: Project Management

Organized and effective project management is an important part of the logistics necessary for success for many leaders, supervisors and managers.  Project managers take the lead on key initiatives and ensure that projects meet objectives by managing people, processes, and information.  This project management certificate provides important concepts in project management, providing essential knowledge and skills needed to step into a project management role in order to advance business, governmental or personal goals.  Upon completion of this certificate, students may then take addition courses to complete and AS degree in Business Management.  Please look under Business Management within the Southwestern College catalogue for more information. 

We anticipate approximately thirty students per year initially enrolling in this program with ten to twenty completions a year.  We hope that enrollments will increase overtime.

The new Southwestern College Certificate of Achievement in Project Management is designed to train supervisors and managers and potential future supervisors and managers project management skills. It also provides the educational background needed for entry-level jobs in project management. This program was created at the request of the Navy Southwest Regional Apprentice Program, NAS North Island, for Naval personnel.  It is also meets the growing demand for project management skills in our local and regional workforce and will be available both on the Navy base in-person and also entirely online for the community at large. 

This Certificate of Achievement is a sequence of 5 classes that will be scheduled to complete in 2 semesters.