Associate's Certificate FAQs

You must successfully complete three project management courses within two years to receive your associate's certificate. One (and only one) course must be taken from these introductory courses: Managing Projects or Managing IT Projects. The remaining two courses can betaken from the following curricula: Core Project Management courses, IT Project Management courses or Project Management Elective courses or Business Skills (limit one).

Courses for Experienced Project Managers, Business Analysis courses, workshops and the PMP^® exam review courses do not apply to the associate's certificate.

Sample certificate paths

Although there is no order in which you should take the courses, we recommend that you take the one introductory course first to become familiar with project management terminology and principles. If you need assistance selecting which courses best fit your needs, please call our course counselors at +1 (888) ESI-4680.

Yes. You may substitute Managing Projects (the e-training equivalent of the classroom course, Managing Projects) as your introductory course. You may then apply any Project Management e-training course toward your certificate. Other specialized e-training courses may not be applied.

You must successfully complete all requirements within two years to earn an associate's certificate.

Students successfully completing the courses as required will receive an associate's certificate by mail four to six weeks after completion of the third qualifying course.

Yes, we encourage you to continue your training to obtain your master's certificate from ESI/GW. All courses that are taken for the associate's certificate may be applied toward a Master's Certificate in Project Management or a Master's Certificate in Information Technology Project Management.

You must successfully complete your master's certificate requirements within four years from the first day of your first ESI course.

Yes. Like all ESI courses, you can save 10% when you register for two or more courses at the same time or when you register both yourself and a friend for the same course at the same time.

Although no ESI courses carry direct academic credit, you can earn a variety of credits for completing ESI courses. Click here for more information.

Our course counselors can assist you with planning your certificate path. Please call +1 (888) ESI-4680.

For questions not related to courses, please call our Office of Student Affairs at + 1 (888) ESI-4681 or e-mail officeofstudentaffairs@esi-intl.com.