Project management is a branch of management science. The definition of project management is: it refers to the process of using specialized knowledge, skills, tools and methods in project activities to make the project meet or exceed the set needs and expectations with limited resources. Project management is the overall monitoring and control of some activities (such as tasks) related to the successful realization of a series of goals. This includes planning, arranging and maintaining the progress of the activities that make up the project.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a master's degree in business administration. MBA is to train practical, compound and applied senior management talents who can meet the needs of high-level management in industrial and commercial enterprises and economic management departments, and it is a combination of theory and practice, while other master students only train scientific research and teaching talents, leaning towards theory and not participating in practice; MBA education for trainers is essentially a kind of professional practice, with special emphasis on cultivating students' practical skills through business case analysis, practical observation, analysis and decision-making skills training on the basis of mastering modern management theories and methods, so that students can accept challenges in knowledge and skills, personality and psychology, goals and aspirations, and have more professional competitiveness, while other graduate students focus on theoretical study and academic research.
The difference is that these are two different majors, and the talents trained are naturally different. MBA trains pragmatic, compound and applied senior management talents who are competent for the top management of industrial and commercial enterprises and economic management departments. The professional degree of project management engineering trains compound and applied senior engineering management talents who are engaged in project life cycle management such as project decision-making, planning, implementation and evaluation.