Postgraduate Engineering & Management Programs

Program Structure & Design

What You Will Develop

Plan and Control Complex Projects

Develop the ability to structure projects, establish schedules and resource requirements, monitor performance, identify deviations, and support effective project control.

Manage Cost and Financial Performance

Understand project costs, budgeting, financial considerations, economic decision-making, and the relationship between financial performance and successful project delivery.

Understand Procurement and Contracts

Develop stronger understanding of procurement strategies, contractual relationships, administration, responsibilities, claims, and the commercial environment of construction.

Manage Quality, Safety and Risk

Understand systematic approaches for managing project quality, occupational health and safety, uncertainty, and project risk.

Lead People and Organizations

Strengthen communication, coordination, negotiation, organizational understanding, leadership, and stakeholder-management capability.

Integrate Sustainability

Consider environmental, social, economic, resource, and lifecycle implications in construction and infrastructure decision-making.

Conduct Applied Research

Develop the ability to identify construction-management problems, formulate research questions, select appropriate methodologies, analyze evidence, and communicate findings.

Educational Objectives

Why Construction Management?

Infrastructure projects are becoming larger, more technically demanding, contractually complex, resource-intensive, and accountable to a wider range of stakeholders.

A technically sound project can still face serious challenges if its scope, time, cost, procurement, contracts, resources, quality, safety, risks, communication, and stakeholders are not managed effectively.

Construction management brings these dimensions together.

The field requires professionals who can understand engineering and construction while also managing organizations, people, resources, information, contracts, uncertainty, and competing project objectives.

M.Sc. Construction Management is designed to strengthen this combination of technical understanding and management capability.

Specialized Focus Areas

Key Areas of Study

Construction Project Management

Explore the principles, processes, tools, and organizational arrangements required to manage construction projects effectively throughout their lifecycle.

Project Planning, Scheduling & Control

Develop approaches for defining activities, sequencing work, allocating resources, establishing schedules, monitoring progress, and controlling project performance.

Construction Economics & Financial Management

Examine economic decision-making, budgeting, costs, financial planning, project viability, and the commercial dimensions of construction.

Cost & Project Controls

Understand estimating, cost planning, monitoring, forecasting, performance measurement, and integrated time-cost management.

Procurement & Contract Management

Study procurement approaches, tendering, contractual relationships, contract administration, obligations, variations, claims, and dispute-related considerations.

Construction Methods & Productivity

Consider construction operations, methods, equipment, resources, productivity, efficiency, and opportunities for improved project performance.

Quality Management

Develop understanding of quality planning, assurance, control, standards, documentation, and continuous improvement in construction.

Construction Safety

Examine occupational health and safety, construction hazards, risk control, safety management systems, and the responsibilities of project participants.

Risk Management

Identify, analyze, allocate, mitigate, monitor, and communicate risks affecting construction and infrastructure projects.

Leadership & Organizational Management

Explore organizational behavior, human resources, leadership, teamwork, communication, negotiation, decision-making, and stakeholder management.

Sustainable Construction

Consider resource efficiency, environmental and social responsibility, lifecycle thinking, resilience, and sustainable approaches to infrastructure development.

Curriculum

Integrating Engineering, Management and Research

The M.Sc. Construction Management curriculum combines construction and project-management knowledge with analytical, economic, contractual, organizational, and research-oriented study.

The program includes:

• core construction-management subjects;

• planning and project-control studies;

• economics, finance, procurement, and contractual topics;

• quality, safety, risk, and organizational management;

• research and analytical methods;

• specialized/elective study as prescribed; and

• thesis/dissertation or research requirements in accordance with Pokhara University regulations.