PMI Certifications Overview

Project Management Institute (PMI) offers a comprehensive certification program for project practitioners of all education and skill levels. Currently consisting of six credentials, the program demonstrates both your commitment to the profession and your expertise through certifying education, experience and competency. Rigorously developed by project managers, PMI certifications ensure that you and your projects excel.

As project management is one of the top skillsets demanded by organizations around the world, this is more important now than ever before. One-fifth of the world’s GDP, or more than $12 trillion, is spent on projects. And with many skilled practitioners leaving or scheduled to leave the workforce due to retirement — a trend the Society of Human Resources (SHRM) identifies as having a major strategic impact for 64% of organizations worldwide — there is a great demand for knowledgeable project managers

When these opportunities arise, certification helps make sure that you’ll be ready. There are already more than 460,000 PMI credential holders around the world and in every industry, from healthcare, telecommunications and finance to IT and construction.

The 2010 PMI Pulse of the Profession study found that organizations with more than 35% PMP certified project managers had better project performance. And according to a 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 80% of high-performing projects use a credentialed project manager. Make sure you’re one of them by earning a PMI certification.

The decision to earn a project management certification is a big one, so make sure you choose one that best fits your current expertise and your future career plans.

1. Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
2. Project Management Professional (PMP)
3. Program Management Professional (PgMP)
4. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
5. PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
6. PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

You can apply for any certification that matches your qualifications, and no certification serves as a prerequisite for another.

Source: Project Management Institute (PMI)