Project and program management training built around how your agency actually delivers

Taught by practitioners who have run real federal projects and programs, and delivered your way: onsite, live online, or self-paced.

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Three ways to train your team

Every format draws on the same practitioner-built project and program management curriculum and instructors who have done the work. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them.

  • Private group training: bring the FAC-P/PM sequence or PMP exam prep onsite and work it against your own agency projects
  • Open enrollment: send project managers and program analysts to scheduled classes, from PMP prep to agile, live online or in Washington, DC
  • Self-paced eLearning: online courses your project team completes between milestones, with no fixed class dates to work around
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Private group training

Bring a cohort onsite and the schedules, risk registers, and stakeholder maps in the room are your own: your program's milestones and contracting decisions, your Microsoft Project files, and the FAC-P/PM requirements your project managers actually have to meet.

  • Any course or certificate in our project and program management catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended
  • A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits
  • Scheduled around your calendar, for a cohort of any size
  • Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group
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Open enrollment

When one person steps into a project lead role, or needs a single FPM course to finish FAC-P/PM Entry Level, register them into a scheduled public session and let them compare delivery problems with project managers from other agencies.

  • A published schedule across the federal project and program management curriculum, entry to advanced
  • Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC
  • No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go
  • The same instructors and materials as our private cohorts
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Self-paced eLearning

Self-paced study fits the material you review rather than debate: PMBOK Guide content ahead of the PMP exam, Microsoft Project mechanics, and AI for Project Management. It suits managers studying around a live project schedule, not a class calendar.

  • Finish a self-paced project management course, then take the same instructor-led class free within a year
  • Enroll one project manager or an entire program office, with completion tracked for every learner
  • Practice scope, schedule, cost, and risk decisions with knowledge checks, not slides you only read through
  • An AI coach grounded in the course material, on hand when a stakeholder or schedule question comes up mid-project
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Curriculum built for government project and program managers

From first-time project leads to FAC-P/PM certification and PMP prep, every course maps to the competencies agencies hire and promote against.

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Project management foundations

Standardized principles and best practices for professionals stepping into project roles at any agency.
Foundations of Project Management Project Management Essentials Project Leadership

Scope, schedule, cost, and risk

The core delivery disciplines that keep agency projects on time, on budget, and on target.
Schedule, Finance & Resources Management Scope, Quality & Risk Management Microsoft Project: Beginner

Stakeholders, agile, and AI

Engage stakeholders and modernize delivery with agile methods and AI-assisted project management.
Stakeholder & Communications Management Introduction to Agile Project Management AI for Project Management

FAC-P/PM federal acquisition series

The FPM 131 through 134 sequence aligned to the Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers.
FPM 131: Fundamentals of Project and Program Management FPM 132: Fundamentals of Contracting FPM 133: Fundamentals of Business, Cost, and Financial Management FPM 134: Fundamentals of Leading Projects and Programs

PMP certification prep

PMI-authorized exam preparation built on the PMBOK Guide; the foundations courses above provide the groundwork to get exam-ready.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Program and management analysis

For federal program and management analysts: turn data collection, statistics, and clear analysis into better program decisions.
Introduction to Management Analysis Data Collection Methods Descriptive Statistics for Data Analysis Clear Expression through Critical Thought

Certificate programs

Five certificate programs: the Project Management Certificate and the FAC-P/PM Entry Level program, plus a three-step Certified Management & Program Analyst track running from Level I data collection and statistics to Level III program evaluation.

Certificate

Project Management Certificate Program

Project management essentials, agile methods, scope, cost, risk, leadership, and stakeholder communication across six courses.

9 days
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Entry Level

FAC-P/PM Entry Level Certificate Program

Federal project and program life cycle, contracting fundamentals, cost and financial principles, and leadership for FAC-P/PM.

12 days
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Level I

Certified Management & Program Analyst Level I

Foundational program and management analysis: data collection, descriptive statistics, and project fundamentals.

12 days
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Level II

Certified Management & Program Analyst Level II

Research design, data interpretation, statistical technique, and stakeholder presentation for mid-career analysts.

11 days
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Level III

Certified Management & Program Analyst Level III

Advanced program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, decision support, and stakeholder management applied to real scenarios.

14 days
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Vetted procurement, right from the GSA Schedule

Graduate School USA is a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract holder, allowing federal agencies and other qualifying organizations to confidently purchase our services.

  • GSA MAS contract 47QRAA24D004K, SINs 611430 (professional training) and 541611 (management/administrative consulting)
  • Held as American Public Training LLC d/b/a Graduate School USA; UEI LA83MCFN1ST3; CAGE 99AA0
  • We work with your training office on the paperwork, whether a Schedule order, purchase order, or an SF-182.
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An established federal training institution

Graduate School USA's federal project and program management curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioners who have delivered federal projects and programs, not licensed from a generic library.

  • Founded 1921 as the USDA Graduate School; 500,000+ government employees trained across 125+ agencies
  • ACCET-accredited (ACCET is a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accreditor)
  • Center for Leadership and Management runs ECQ-aligned executive development, including the Executive Potential Program since 1995
  • 200+ federally experienced subject-matter experts across 400+ courses and certificates
  • Available on an active GSA MAS Schedule (SINs 611430 and 541611)

Questions agencies ask

The answers training officers and program directors ask for most, in one place.

How does my agency buy training from Graduate School USA?
Graduate School USA holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract 47QRAA24D004K (SINs 611430 and 541611), so you can place a pre-priced order directly under FAR Subpart 8.4 without running an open-market procurement. We accept the SF-182, Schedule orders, government purchase orders, and purchase cards for micro-purchases.
Can we pay with an SF-182?
Yes. We accept the SF-182, purchase orders, and GSA Schedule orders under contract 47QRAA24D004K, and our group training team works with your training office on the paperwork.
What is the difference between private group training and open enrollment?
Open enrollment classes are scheduled public sessions anyone can register for, taken live online or at our Washington, DC campus at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW. Private group training delivers a course for your agency's own cohort, tailored to your mission and delivered onsite, live online, or blended.
Can employees train self-paced, and still take the live class later?
Yes. Our self-paced online courses let a learner start anytime and work at their own pace, and when you buy the self-paced course the learner may also attend the live instructor-led course for free within one year.
Can courses be tailored to our agency?
Yes. We tailor existing courses to reflect your agency's mission, policies, and real cases, and we can develop new courses for unique requirements, all delivered under GSA contract 47QRAA24D004K.
Can training be delivered virtually or in person?
Both. Courses are offered as live virtual instruction or in-person onsite at your facility or at our Washington, DC location, and some programs blend live sessions with self-paced work.
What if an employee needs to repeat a class?
We offer one free retake of a class within one year, so a first attempt is never wasted if someone is reassigned, deployed, or needs a refresher before applying the material.
What's new in your federal project and program management training?
Our curriculum is refreshed to current federal law, policy, and practice; we added new AI courses for the federal workforce; courses now run in a modern learning portal, and self-paced courses add an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year.
Our project managers need FAC-P/PM Entry Level. What does that path look like here?
The FPM 131 through 134 sequence is aligned to the Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers, moving from fundamentals of project and program management into contracting, business and cost and financial management, and leading projects and programs. Those four courses are also packaged as the FAC-P/PM Entry Level Certificate Program, listed at 12 days. Agencies that want the sequence run together for one component can take it as a private group.
We have both project managers and management analysts in the same office. Do they take the same courses?
Not entirely. Delivery staff work through the foundations courses, then scope, quality and risk, schedule, finance and resources, stakeholder and communications management, agile methods, and Microsoft Project. Analysts follow the Certified Management & Program Analyst levels instead, starting with Introduction to Management Analysis, Data Collection Methods, and Descriptive Statistics for Data Analysis, then moving to research design at Level II and cost-benefit analysis and program evaluation at Level III.

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