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Engineering Management
Online Master's Degree
Lead the Future of Engineering & Architecture
August 25, 2025
100% online
courses
Personalized pace
with regular
deadlines
11 courses
33 credits
$13,464 - $18,513

The Online Engineering Management Master’s program is designed for busy engineers and architects in the MENA region. More than just a degree, it’s a hands-on toolkit for building real management skills. You’ll learn to streamline processes, overcome challenges, and lead with confidence.

With flexible, 100% online classes taught by top professors, this program opens doors to senior roles, drives innovation, and connects you to valuable industry networks that will boost your career immediately.


Unique Benefits Tailored to Your Needs!

Advance your career without pausing projects, even with hectic schedules.
Learn practical solutions from experts with decades of experience.
Participate in webinars offering practical strategies on transitioning into leadership.
Connect with a community that overcomes industry-specific hurdles together.
Learn by doing —tackle projects that reflect your daily operational challenges.
Unlock top career opportunities with AUB’s #1 graduate career success ranking in the region.

Who Is This Program For?

Busy, ambitious professionals ready to advance

You are
  • An engineer or manager in a technical field looking to boost your leadership skills and gain hands-on management expertise.
  • An architect eager to move beyond design and step into strategic project management and business leadership.

Eligibility Requirements

You have
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture (or an equivalent qualification).
  • A minimum GPA of 3.2 on the ̩ƱScale (or its equivalent) over your last two years of study. Applicants with substantial work experience may qualify for a waiver.
  • Proof of English Language Proficiency (ELPR) Learn more here.

What Skills Will You Learn?

Connect tech skills with business strategy to take on bigger challenges.
Make confident decisions in project planning, finance, and risk management.
Apply critical thinking and teamwork to unlock senior leadership opportunities.
Simplify complex processes to work faster and advance your career.

Testimonials

Amin Abou Saad

Motivated by AUB's strong reputation and its high employability rate in the region, I was eager to join the program. It significantly improved my management approach and decision-making skills in my current role.

Amin Abou Saad (OEM' 24)

Testing & Commissioning Manager at STED Saudi Co.

Youssef Mourad

The program has exceeded my expectations! it is designed in a way that facilitates acquiring tools and knowledge that can be directly used to excel on the professional level.

Youssef Mourad (OEM '23)

Technical Manager at Monla Group Holding

Jamy Zakharia

As a working professional, enrolling in the "Masters of Engineering Management" program at ̩Ʊwas an investment in my self-improvement to realize further success in my career transition. The online learning experience has been rewarding. The knowledge gained by professors, truly masters of their fields, has direct practical applications to the management world.

Jamy Zakharia (MEM '21)

Business Development Manager for Energy Transition at Petrofac 

Amin Abou Saad

Motivated by AUB's strong reputation and its high employability rate in the region, I was eager to join the program. It significantly improved my management approach and decision-making skills in my current role.

Amin Abou Saad (OEM' 24)

Testing & Commissioning Manager at STED Saudi Co.

Youssef Mourad

The program has exceeded my expectations! it is designed in a way that facilitates acquiring tools and knowledge that can be directly used to excel on the professional level.

Youssef Mourad (OEM '23)

Technical Manager at Monla Group Holding

Jamy Zakharia

As a working professional, enrolling in the "Masters of Engineering Management" program at ̩Ʊwas an investment in my self-improvement to realize further success in my career transition. The online learning experience has been rewarding. The knowledge gained by professors, truly masters of their fields, has direct practical applications to the management world.

Jamy Zakharia (MEM '21)

Business Development Manager for Energy Transition at Petrofac 

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Curriculum

Core Courses

Learn to formulate and implement major goals and initiatives based on consideration of resources and assessment of the internal and external environments in which the project or organization competes. Equip yourself to deal with issues such as competitive advantages, resources allocation, economy of scale, and role of technology and technological innovation.

Acquire the basics of financial accounting, the investment process and financial markets, and gain a flavor of Financial Engineering applications such as pricing and portfolio structuring of bonds, capital budgeting, cash matching, dynamic investment management and firm valuation. This course will prepare you to handle more complex financial instruments with uncertain cash flows, such as stocks, options and futures.

Develop a coherent approach to decision making and acquire rules of thought to transform complex decisions into simpler decision situations. Gain basic techniques of modern decision analysis and modeling and learn to use probability and utility theory to represent uncertainties and preferences in those models.

Learn how to design and manage operations in an organization for a sustainable and competitive advantage. Gather theoretical and practical insights into service and manufacturing operations, in both the private and public sectors. Get introduced to topics such as forecasting, strategic operations, linear programming, aggregate planning, inventory management, MRP and ERP and scheduling.

Elective Courses

Explore technical and managerial challenges of project management and address issues related to project selection techniques, project planning, budgeting, risk analysis, resource management, project monitoring and termination. Understand how project management decisions are reached, what tradeoffs are made, and how outcomes depend on the underlying situation.

Learn to tackle issues related to the various approaches that may be suitable for the delivery of large construction projects. Understand the risks inherent in the undertaking of large projects and comprehend how certain identified risks can be addressed through the proper formation of project contracts.

Discover the emerging concept of lean performance in the construction industry. Get introduced to the origin of lean concepts, and learn their application to the design process, implementation in construction, contracting for lean performance, and value improving practices such as benchmarking, constructability, and value management.

Get introduced to the investment process and financial markets. Learn about portfolio management, the valuation of financial instruments, the pricing of a basic class of financial derivative securities (forwards, futures and options) Gain insights that can be extended to handle more complex financial instruments. Get exposed to areas such as mathematical modeling, optimization, probability, and, more generally, to finance, and operations research.

Gather theoretical knowledge and gain practical skills to analyze, visualize, and explore data. Get introduced to applied data analytics, with an emphasis on viewing data from both statistical and machine learning perspectives.

Understand construction contract conditions governing claims and disputes, with a focus on claim evolvement and administration, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods and amicable settlement.

Engage in an active discovery of risk management principles and develop an awareness of the challenges, the tools and the process of designing and implementing a risk management program, with application to industry projects.

Understand the fundamental principles underlying software management and economics through an overview of traditional software development and management strategies, contrasted with iterative and incremental development techniques covering the full spectrum of agile methods, including Scrum, extreme programming, lean and feature-driven development.

This course exposes students to the project management principles and practices. Students will acquire the necessary tools, and techniques to plan, execute, and control projects to deliver successful outcomes. The course will introduce students to project charter development, scope selection, delivery strategies, project planning, cost estimation, project controls, staffing, health/safety/environment (HSE), and quality management. The course exposes students to the principles of agile project management.

This course presents a view of managing projects from an organizational perspective. The main areas of discussion will be strategic alignment, the role of effectively managing organizational assets through an enterprise project management office, portfolio management and program management. Using specific examples and a case study approach, students will explore the importance of using organizational strategies to align projects and apply practices to create portfolios of programs and projects to efficiently leverage organizational assets.

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