Program & Project Manager Certifications

We offer the USA's only role-based, PPM competence-led certifications, assessed by professional assessors. We also offer exam-based certification. See our range of basic to Advanced PM certification offerings.

Evaluate Your Project/Program Management Complexity. Which Advanced Project and Program Certifications do your initiatives require?

Download ICB4, IPMA's Individual Competence Baseline. ICB4 shows the path from Knowledge, to Competence, to Certification, and PM Performance.

Standards 

IPMA's Project Excellence Baseline, 2nd Edition, is our foundation for guiding all aspects of project activities, resources, and people to excellence.  And it is free!  Learn more!

In addition to our unique advanced certifications for program and project managers, we also offer PRO, our Performance Rated Organization standard; click the PRO logo at right to visit our PRO section.

PRO is an organizational performance assessment standard. This process can help you benchmark to other organization, or  provides an action plan to improve PM performance. Download PRO; wouldn't you rather be served by a PRO?

IPMA-USA Young Crew

JOINING IPMA YOUNG CREW IS THE BEST CAREER MOVE A YOUNG PROJECT MANAGER CAN MAKE!

Young Crew is a key component of IPMA’s growth and development of the leaders of tomorrow. We are the premier global network for young professionals enthusiastic about project management, a platform for young project management professionals and students up to the age of 35.  

Join as a member or student member and select the Young Crew option to get started. 

Be a dauntless PM and join today!

Education (Learning)

See our Competence Enabler (CE) program. Participants can offer their services as coaches, trainers, consultants, or PRO Assessors! 

And, check out PM-SAT, our Self-Assessment Tool for PM Competences. Explore how your PM competences meet our standard.

Texas A&M University is the first U.S. college to launch GPM and IPMA centered project management program

October 4th, 2021, Detroit, U.S. & College Station, T.X.: For the first time in the U.S., undergraduate and graduate level project management programs will include key elements for project management competence and sustainability through a collaboration with several colleges within Texas A&M University, with International Project Management Association in the United States (IPMA-USA) and Green Project Management (GPM).

Texas A&M University ranks No. 17 among the nation’s best public universities, and No. 10 among best schools in the South, according to Forbes magazine’s 2021 top U.S. colleges and universities listings.  As of 2020, it has the second largest student body in the United States with approximately 70,000 students. The management program within Mays Business School at Texas A&M ranks #7 in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report’s specialty program rankings. The Texas A&M Energy Institute pursues and supports new approaches for multi-disciplinary energy research, education and external partnerships. These approaches cross departmental and college boundaries and address all facets of the energy landscape that naturally connect engineering, sciences, technologies, economics, law and policy decisions. The project management offerings within both these programs will expand for the 2021 – 2022 academic year to emphasize mindsets around global thinking and sustainability

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