If you plan on majoring in project management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #250 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for project management students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 67 degrees in project management to qualified students.
Your choice of project management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Project Management School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The project management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Project Management Schools in Texas.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the project management degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in project management needs to look into University of North Texas. UNT is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Denton. A Best Colleges rank of #310 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNT is a great university overall.
There were approximately 4 project management students who graduated with this degree at UNT in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of the Incarnate Word if you want to pursue a degree in project management. UIW is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of San Antonio. This university ranks 38th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 9 project management students who graduated with this degree at UIW in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Sam Houston State University if you want to pursue a degree in project management. SHSU is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Huntsville. This university ranks 18th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 12 project management students who graduated with this degree at SHSU 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).