Project Management Courses

This depends on your level of experience in project management as well as your career goals. If you're just starting your career, or you're changing career from another type of role, then you need to look for an entry-level course with no formal pre-requisites such as the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification. If you're an established project management professional looking to upskill, you'll need a more advanced course that will help you learn the new skills you need. For example, the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) course requires you to have a certain amount of prior experience and will help you learn skills in conflict management, leadership, and stakeholder management, among other things. 

This depends on the course. Some project management courses, such as the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or the AgilePM® Foundation, have no formal prerequisites so are good for beginners in project management. Some courses do require you to have prior experience. The AgilePM® Practitioner course, for example, requires that you have done the AgilePM® Foundation course. Many intermediate or advanced training courses will also specify that you should have a certain number of hours in study and experience before enrolling. The best thing to do is speak to one of our project management career advisors; this is a free service and will help you understand what courses you can and should take. 

Absolutely! In fact, they seem to be more in demand than ever in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. In March 2025, there were 22.5k project management jobs open in Australia on the large online employment marketplace, Seek, according to PeopleCert.org.

There is also growing demand for project management talent in New Zealand, with this demand notably outweighing availability, according to careers and recruitment consultancy, Salt.

In Australia, salaries for project management professionals generally range from $110,000 to $160,000+ per year (AUD). This varies based on experience, location, and industry. The same variances apply to project management salaries in New Zealand, but they typically range from $80,000 to $130,000 per year (NZD).

Absolutely not. A lot of the people we speak to at Learning People are looking to change careers in their 30s, 40s, or even older. If you're keen to study and work hard to be successful in project management, you should not find that age is a limiting factor. 

We're not going to say they're easy. You do need to work hard and be consistent with your study to gain any project management qualification. The courses we offer are flexible, online and self-paced, meaning you can fit the study hours around your other commitments or work. We also offer proprietary and award-winning StudentCare™ to support you during your learning, so even when things get tough, we can help you power through to success. 

Yes! All the project management courses we offer are online, flexible, and self-paced. Our award-winning StudentCare™ team will be available to support you if you need, but you can take complete control over how and when you study on our online platform.