How To Get 35 Contact Hours Of Project Management Education In PMP?

How To Get 35 Contact Hours Of Project Management Education In PMP?

What is PMP?

Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification is a benchmark for project management. The PMP certification validates the experience, knowledge, expertise, capability, competency and required skills to lead and manage projects.

Eligibility Criteria

As stated in the Project Management Institute’s PMP Handbook, you must attain 35 hours of formal education to fulfill the eligibility criteria.

What is 35 contact hours of project management education?

35 contact hours of project management education is a formal education that addresses the learning objective of project management in terms of hours. It can be attained by any mode of training such as classroom training, online training or e-learning.

You need to document your 35 hours of ‘contact hours’  prior to filling the PMP application.

35 hours of project management education is mandatory for both a four-year degree holder and a high school graduate.

Project management education of 35 hours never expires.

What counts as contact hours for PMP?

Contact hours are a formal education on project management strictly measured in hours.

As mentioned in the PMP Handbook,

One hour of classroom instruction equals one contact hour. If you have completed a university or college course on project management such as MBA that met for three hours per week for 15 weeks, you would record 45 contact hours. If only a portion of a course dealt with project management, only the hours spent on project management can be applied toward the total.

The PMP Candidates must classify the course content in following project management knowledge areas:

• Project Quality
• Project Scope
• Project Schedule
• Project Budget
• Project Communications
• Project Risk
• Project Procurement
• Project Integration Management.

What doesn't count as contact hours?

• PMI Chapter meeting with no learning activity.
• Self-study
• Management degree or post-graduation in management which cannot be mapped in project management knowledge areas mentioned above.

Why are 35 hours of project management education required?

35 hours of project management education is required to fulfill the eligibility criteria to take up a prestigious certification exam of project management accredited by the globally recognized Project Management Institute(PMI®).

35 hours of project management education helps you to understand the fundamentals of  A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) on which the PMP exam is based.

How to get 35 contact hours of Project Management Education for PMP?

You can attain 35 contact hours of project management by taking up professional courses, workshops and training sessions offered by,

• PMI registered education providers (R.E.P.s)

The PMP training courses offered by R.E.P.s in any mode of training can be qualified as project management education.

• Employer/ company-sponsored programs

The programs offered by the company to enhance the management skills of the employees aligned with PMBOK knowledge areas can qualify the project management education.

• Training companies or consultants

The education institutes providing training in project management which can be mapped to knowledge areas and project management processes according to PMBOK-6th edition can qualify project management education.

• Distance-learning companies, including an end-of-course assessment

Instructor-LED online training or self-paced e-learning which covers the knowledge areas of project management and which can be documented or mapped in terms of project management knowledge areas can be qualified as project management education.

• University/college academic and continuing education programs

Project management education which falls under the project management knowledge area and can be documented can be qualified. Note that the contact hours are strictly based on the project management education which can satisfy the project management knowledge areas and not the overall degree program.

• PMI Chapters

PMI or PMI component organizations conduct regular chapter meetings. The learning activity hours which can be documented are qualified as project management education.

What if you don’t have a document related to project management education?

You need documents related to project management education to qualify the audit process.

If you fail the audit process, there is a one-year suspension period to apply for that certification again.

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