Graduate Certificate of Advanced Project Management - Strategic Leadership
Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Graduate Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Advanced Project Management Strategic Leadership program teaches practical skills to plan, schedule, budget and control projects. Aligned with the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Agile, it builds on a one-year foundation and expands into leadership, multi-project methods. It’s a two-year graduate certificate with a supervised 280 hours work placement (paid co-op or field placement) adding Canadian context.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as project manager, project coordinator, program manager, or Agile project manager across IT, construction and healthcare. Employers value project leadership, strategic planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement and Agile delivery experience.
The Advanced Project Management - Strategic Leadership program provides theoretical and practical knowledge to manage projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. This highly sought-after skill set provides valuable project management experience that is applicable across numerous industries.
Closely aligned with the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) curriculum, the Sault College two-year graduate certificate program leverages the existing one-year program which introduces students to the systematic practice of managing individual and multiple projects through the application of current methods, tools, and technologies, and, in the second year of study, students in the two-year program engage in more expansive Project Management topics, including Agile, increasing the employability of graduates.
InSemester Four, students will apply the knowledge and skills they gained throughout the program, in awork placement. Students will participate in either a paid work placement (co-op), or an unpaid work placement (field placement). Both options have 280 hours of participation.
Meeting the requirements of a two-year graduate certificate in Ontario in fields of study where a one-year program also exists, this two-year program incorporates a Canadian context to students' learning experience and work practice to ensure that graduates are prepared to be successful in the Canadian labour force.
