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Build Your Future in Construction Management

Meet the growing demand for skilled construction managers with UCLA Extension's industry-driven certificate programs.  Gain practical expertise in technologies, materials, cost takeoff, blueprint reading, site management, scheduling, and sustainable construction.  

Offered online or in-person.

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Construction Management

A Path That Works for You

Construction Management Certificate:

  • Consists of five core courses with no electives.
  • An accelerated pathway tailored to students seeking a more streamlined approach to the essential topics with flexibility and efficiency.
  • Focus on certain components of the curriculum while delivering essential skills required for success in the field.

Construction Management Extended Certificate:

  • Consists of five required courses and three electives.
  • Offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics in construction management with a wide range of subjects to choose from.
  • Ensures a thorough understanding of various trades within the field.

Why UCLA Extension?

  • Learn in-person, online or both for flexible options.
  • Study planning, budgeting, risk management, safety and more from industry professionals.
  • Connect with peers, instructors and industry leaders through our extensive network.
  • Our programs incorporate the latest sustainable construction technologies and strategies to promote energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and environmental resilience.
  • A UCLA Extension certificate demonstrates your achievement of excellence at the #1 public university in the nation and can give you the competitive edge you need in today's job market.
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    my name is Dan McAuliffe and I'm an
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    instructor in the construction
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    management certificate program that UCLA
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    Extension the construction management
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    program at UCLA Extension is unique in
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    that it offers all of the curriculum a
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    student needs you wants to study
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    construction management with very
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    flexible class delivery methods whether
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    it's online hybrid or in in the
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    classroom with classes offer year-round
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    my name is ebony Shizu I teach reading
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    construction blueprints at UCLA
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    Extension
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    I see that my students might come back
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    in the next class and say hey I used I
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    use what we learned last week in my job
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    today and they're impressed so a student
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    or a working professional who wants to
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    change career paths and get into
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    construction has the opportunity to
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    complete the program a pretty quick
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    speed if they like and to really learn
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    the core competencies that you need to
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    be a project engineer or field engineer
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    at a jobsite
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    students that take electrical design and
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    construction come from a multitude of
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    backgrounds some more professionals
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    already in the industry that really
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    never had a background in electrical and
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    they want to learn more about the
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    specialty trade others are just breaking
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    into it some of them just want to learn
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    it too and as a career change and the
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    UCLA Extension construction management
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    program certainly offers that my name is
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    Brian Roberts and I am a certificate
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    graduate of the UCLA extensions
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    construction management program I
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    decided to do the program at UCLA
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    extension because I was actually in
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    between jobs and I really wanted to go
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    back to school and learn a different
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    craft several days after completing my
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    certificate program at UCLA Extension I
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    actually received a position for an
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    entertainment company for facilities
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    management as well as construction
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    management for the various build outs
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    and projects that they had in their
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    facility why we're unique in
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    construction management because we have
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    special attributes we manage unique
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    projects you know it's not a typical
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    project that you keep repeating projects
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    could have unique locations unique
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    challenges a unique schedule
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    requirements a unique risk level each
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    project is different in its entirety
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    that's why construction management is
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    slightly different science than the
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    regular project management I think UCLA
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    Extension Program is by far probably the
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    number one and in the area here there's
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    a lot of construction jobs out there
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    anyone can see driving around town
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    there's tower cranes all over the place
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    what student gets out of the program is
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    the confidence and the ability to walk
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    into a job site trailer and be a field
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    engineer or an intern or project
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    engineer and really set them up for that
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    career in construction management
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