2025 Best Project Management Schools in California
4Colleges in California
467Project Management Degrees Awarded
A degree in project management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #250 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for project management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 467 degrees in project management annually.
The project management program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Project Management rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for project management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Project Management Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of project management degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in project management needs to check out University of Southern California. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 166 project management students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat The University of Arizona Global Campus if you want to pursue a degree in project management. UAGC is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of San Diego. This university ranks 56th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 158 project management students who graduated with this degree at UAGC in the most recent year we have data available.
Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in project management. Located in the city of San Francisco, Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #166 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a great university overall.
There were approximately 30 project management students who graduated with this degree at Golden Gate University - San Francisco in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Mount Saint Mary's University if you wish to pursue a degree in project management. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, MSMU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 26th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 20 project management students who graduated with this degree at MSMU in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The project management program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Project Management rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for project management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
