Get Certified. Get Ahead.
PMI certifications offer the opportunity for veterans to make a successful transition to a civilian career. Advance your career and increase your earning potential with any team in any industry... get the additional credibility in the project management field with a PMI certification that demonstrates and leverages your military experience.
In an increasingly projectized world, PMI professional certification ensures that you’re ready to meet the demands of projects and employers across the globe. Developed by practitioners for practitioners, our certifications are based on rigorous standards and ongoing research to meet the real-world needs of organizations. With a PMI certification behind your name, you can work in virtually any industry, anywhere in the world, and with any project management methodology.
Wherever you are in your career, we have a certification for you.
Teamwork, process improvement and seeing a project from concept to completion are all things we do in the army. You have to be technically and tactically efficient and those attributes directly relate to project management.
—Chris Teodoro, Retired Army Special Forces
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Now including predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches, the globally recognized PMP certification exam verifies an individual’s ability to lead projects and navigate uncertainty using any way of working.
Designed by project leaders for project leaders, the PMP certifies that you have what it takes to lead the world’s most influential projects. PMP certification holders can help teams spearhead tangible change, better oversee projects, and reduce the amount of time and resources wasted by working smarter.
PMP Eligibility Requirements
- 4-year college degree
- 3 years of experience leading and directing projects
- 5 years of experience leading and directing projects (without a 4-year degree)
- 35 hours of project management coursework (Need an online class option?)
If you do not meet this criteria, consider the CAPM Certification (see below) instead.
Median salary for PMP holders in the U.S. (and 16% higher globally) than those without certification.
Source: Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey - Twelfth Edition.
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®
Regardless of career stage or project management experience, the CAPM can distinguish individuals in the job market and enhance credibility and effectiveness working on, or with, project teams.
The Certified Associate in Project Management certification offers recognition to practitioners who are interested in, or just starting a career in project management, as well as project team members who wish to demonstrate their project management knowledge.
CAPM Eligibility Requirements
- Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)
- 23 hours of project management education completed by the time you sit for the exam. Our Project Management Basics online course fulfills this educational prerequisite.
Why get certified? It confirms your validity. It’s a challenge to turn the military skill set into a story that civilian employers understand. Teamwork, process improvement and seeing a project from concept to completion are all things we do in the army. You have to be technically and tactically efficient and those attributes directly relate to project management.
—Chris Teodoro, Retired Army Special Forces
Get on Track. Get Ahead.
Research indicates that employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 million new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. With a PMI certification, you’ll be on the fast track to opportunity.
Jump on the Fast Track to Opportunity
Stand Out from the Crowd
Enhance your Credibility
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