Canadian Planning Degrees and Association of Planners

Submitted by Alex Seligman on
Project Services Career Issues

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Submitted by Sreejith Nair on Wed, 2008-07-23 08:19
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Ha!

This is purely organization dependent !

Some companies only promote people with good qualifications , exp and affiliations.

We may also find several managers who came up from the position of Fabricator/ Fitter or even helper !

But for fresh employment, most of the companies put these requirements :

Planner / Scheduler : Diploma or science degree

Planning Engineer : Engineering Degree

Planning Manager : Engg Degree + PSP / PMP



cheers



Sreejith

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Submitted by Alex Seligman on Wed, 2008-07-23 07:01
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Thanks for your replies.



Just wondered whether it is really necessary to have to do an MSc type qualification.



I have done an official P3e course and I currently work with Open Plan.

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Submitted by Sreejith Nair on Wed, 2008-07-23 04:09
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Hi!

There are some PMI accredited project management degrees.

Check out www.pmi.org for more details.



The one I checked out is Boston University- MSPM programme.(It is a PMI approved /recommended degree)



Cheers!



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Submitted by Chris Oggham on Wed, 2008-07-23 03:51
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Hi Alex,



There are a number of universities that offer degree or post graduate qualifications featuring project planning. Lincoln and Glamorgan have degrees containing modules on project planning, but I don’t know much more than that.



On the post graduate fron however, Glasgow University offers an MSc Project Planning and Development Project Analysis. Bradford University offers a similar MSc.



Hope this is useful.



Chris Oggham