Minor in Quality-Based Project Management
Clarkson University offers a Minor in Quality-Based Project Management, a field that entails managing people, resources, and budgets to ensure projects are completed on-time and on-budget. The minor is:
- Open to all students in all majors and is useful for engineers, science and business majors
- An opportunity for students to pursue certification through the Project Management Institute (PMI), a great resume item and source of value recognized by employers
- An opportunity for certain students to sit for the American Society for Quality’s “Certified Quality Improvement Associate” exam
To earn a Minor in Quality-Based Project Management, students must maintain a 2.0 average in the five (5) three-credit courses, distributed in the following fashion:
A. All three (3) of these courses:
- OM/EM480 Project Management (Prerequisite: statistics course)
- OM/EM351 Quality Management and Lean Enterprise (Prerequisite: statistics)
- SB305 Cost Management
B. Elective Courses (Choose any pair):
Option 1:
- OS/EM286 Organizational Behavior (Prerequisite: sophomore standing)
- OS352 Strategic Human Resource Management (Co/Prerequisite: IS211 or IS200, Prerequisite: OS286)
Option 2:
- OS/EM286 Organizational Behavior (Prerequisite: sophomore standing)
- OS466 Negotiations and Relationship Management (Prerequisite: OS286)
Option 3:
- OM/EM331 Operations & Supply Chain Management (Pre/Corequisite: IS211 or IS200; Prerequisite: statistics)
- OM/EM476 Management of Technology (Co/Prerequisite: OM331)
For more information contact Christine Frascatore in the School of Business Student Support Center at cfrascat@clarkson.edu or 315-268-3977








