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Enable better, more confident decision making with program and project risk management

Professional Certificate in
Project Risk Management: Effective Decision Making Strategies
UMD and USMx

What you will learn

  • Understand the fundamentals or risk and how to develop a proper assessment of risk using expert judgement.
  • Gain the skills in modeling budgets and project schedules with uncertain values for cost, duration, and resources.
  • Apply simulation in evaluating projects and their potential for positive return on investment under uncertainty.
  • Understand decision making theory and the application of both cognitive science and economics in our thinking about projects.
  • Know how to apply risk transfer and insurance to reduce owner and vendor risk through financial markets.
Expert instruction
3 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
4 months
1 - 3 hours per week
Discounted price: $672.30
Pre-discounted price: $747USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. UMD and USMx's Project Risk Management: Effective Decision Making Strategies Professional Certificate

Meet your instructor
from The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), University System of Maryland (USMx)

Gregory Baecher
Professor
University of Maryland

Experts from UMD, USMx committed to teaching online learning

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Discounted price: $672.30
Pre-discounted price: $747USD
3 courses in 4 months
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