How long is the Diploma in Project Management?

The Diploma in Project Management runs for 9 to 12 months. Full-time and part-time evening cohorts share the same board-facing project pack assessment.

Can the Diploma in Project Management be studied online?

Yes. The Diploma in Project Management runs on-campus in central London, fully online with cohort calls, and by distance learning.

Is the Diploma in Project Management recognised by UK employers?

Yes. The Diploma in Project Management is designed around APM PMQ and PRINCE2 Practitioner content and is a recognised working credential across UK delivery teams.

What are the entry requirements for the Diploma in Project Management?

A relevant Level 3 Certificate or two years of coordinator experience, GCSE English and Maths at grade 4, IELTS 5.5. Mature applicants welcome on the Diploma in Project Management.

What does the Diploma in Project Management cost?

Fees vary by mode and instalment plan. Contact LSIBM admissions for the current schedule and employer-sponsored places on the Diploma in Project Management.

Diploma in Project Management | LSIBM London | Harold International College of London

Course Overview

The Diploma in Project Management at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a Level 4 practitioner qualification for candidates ready to own a project rather than coordinate one — a step-up project manager at a UK consultancy, a delivery manager inside a bank, or a first-time PM at a public-sector programme. Sitting inside the Business & Management faculty, the Diploma covers planning, budgeting, earned-value tracking, risk management, stakeholder governance and structured project close.

The Diploma runs over 9 to 12 months and is available on-campus in central London, fully online, or by distance learning. Tutors include working practitioners drawn from Association for Project Management (APM), PRINCE2 and PMI communities, and the closing assessment is a full board-facing project pack for a simulated London delivery. The sections below cover modules, audience and progression.

Key Features

Curriculum reviewed against APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) and PRINCE2 Practitioner content.
Three study modes — central London campus, fully online, or distance learning — with the same tutor cohort.
Real-world assessment: a board-facing project pack — scope, plan, budget, RAID, benefit case — for a London delivery.
Working practice on Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana and Monday.com at a PM level.
Direct articulation into the LSIBM Advanced Diploma or Higher Diploma in Project Management.

What You Will Learn

The Diploma builds a working project manager. You will finish able to inherit a project mid-flight, produce a credible baseline plan, run governance, defend a variance in an executive steer-co and close a project cleanly with lessons learned.

Project planning at PM level — WBS, network analysis and critical path.
Budgeting and cost baselines — CBS, estimating techniques and contingency.
Earned value management — CV, SV, CPI, SPI and forecasting to complete.
Risk management — qualitative and quantitative registers, Monte Carlo basics.
Stakeholder governance — steer-co design, escalation routes and RACI clarity.
Change control — CR discipline, impact analysis and baseline reset.
Waterfall, PRINCE2 and agile hybrid delivery choice.
Benefits realisation, lessons learned and closing a project properly.

Who This Course Is For

Project coordinators ready to run their first project as PM.
Team leads with informal project responsibility formalising their practice.
PMO analysts moving into a delivery-manager seat.
Consultants inheriting client-facing project responsibility.
Career changers with strong organisational skills moving into delivery from operations or admin.

Career Pathways

Diploma graduates step into first-tier project-management roles across UK consultancies, banks, tech scale-ups, public-sector programmes and mid-market SMEs. The Diploma is a working credential — outcomes remain individual.

Project Manager
Delivery Manager
PMO Analyst (senior)
Scrum Team Coordinator
Change Analyst
Junior Programme Manager

The Diploma is a direct feeder into the LSIBM Advanced Diploma in Project Management, APM PMQ and PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Entry Requirements

A relevant Certificate (Level 3) or equivalent — mature applicants with two years of coordinator or delivery experience are welcomed on a portfolio route with a short structured-thinking sample.
GCSE English Language at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C (or international equivalent).
IELTS 5.5 overall (no band below 5.0) for non-native English speakers.
A short statement of intent and one academic or professional reference.

Why Study at LSIBM

The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies — CMI, CIM, CIPD, ACCA, CIMA, CFA UK, CIPS and IOE&IT — so qualifications carry weight with employers.

London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England and the West End within a short tube ride of every classroom. Diploma cohorts run structured cohort clinics with working practitioners — a Big-Four tax adviser, a CIM Fellow in marketing, a CIPD-chartered HR director — so students meet professional expectations well before graduation.

Apply for the Diploma in Project Management

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