Training a team on Project Management Professional: what providers publish, and what to ask before you buy

The prices in the table below are figures each named provider publishes on its own page, with the date each was read. They are observations, not quotes or claims of availability; verify the current offer directly with the provider.

Before you price this: Not a withdrawal. PMI launched an updated PMP exam on 2026-07-09; the PMP credential itself is unchanged and still offered. PMI's page continues to present the PMP as the offered credential and describes the July 2026 change as an exam update; we therefore record no successor. Read 2026-07-30. Check the vendor's page.

Before you buy training, check you can actually be certified. PMI lists four paths: secondary diploma plus 60 months/5 years; associate degree or vocational trade school diploma plus 48 months/4 years; bachelor degree or higher plus 36 months/3 years; or a PMI GAC-accredited bachelor or postgraduate degree plus 24 months/2 years. Project-management experience must be non-overlapping and within the prior 10 years. Meet the applicable education and project-management experience path plus 35 hours of project-management training or an active CAPM before applying. Active CAPM fulfills the PMP training requirement, not the project-management experience requirement. PMI eligibility requirements, recorded 2026-10-01. Verified four education paths and 10-year non-overlapping experience window. Standard bachelor route remains three years; the GAC route is two years. Live training completed from December 1, 2026 must use an eligible provider category; eligible self-paced training follows separate rules.

The first thing to know

Among the 3 first-party prices verified below, published prices for Project Management Professional training run from $1,995 per course (New Horizons, Virtual instructor-led) to $3,350 per course (Learning Tree International, online) — roughly 1.7× between them, for preparation toward the same exam. The offerings differ in delivery, in what is bundled and in how long access lasts; the table shows what each provider states; none of the pages read for this table explains why its price sits where it does.

Before you price anything

There is free and official material for Project Management Professional. The page below collects what each source publishes, with the date every link was checked, and labels which are official and which are independent.

Do not assume what is or is not included. Free offerings sometimes carry a schedule, a support channel, a hosted lab or completion tracking, and sometimes carry none of those — check the linked descriptions for what each one actually provides. The table below shows price and delivery for the paid options, not what is inside each course.

Why look before pricing a group: it is a low-cost way to begin checking whether your people are starting from the same place, and that difference shapes what you buy.

Free and official study for Project Management Professional

What each provider publishes

These are prices as each provider publishes them. Some publish a single list price; others publish a floor, marked in the table where that is what the source shows. Whether a price covers one participant or a whole class, and whether a group or private rate exists, are both on the list of things to ask further down.

Government and other restricted rates

Listed separately because eligibility is restricted and these are not prices an ordinary buyer can take. Confirm with the provider whether your organisation qualifies before treating one as available.

Places on a public course, or a cohort of your own

None of the provider pages read for this table states a private-cohort price, so there is no crossover point to give you and we will not invent one. What can be laid out is the questions that bear on it. These are not the only considerations — the provider checklist below covers more — but they are four that can change the shape of the purchase:

1. Do your people start from the same place? Establish the spread between your strongest and weakest first; the free material above is one way to find out.

2. Does anyone need a practice environment you cannot provide? If so, ask each option what it includes and for how long.

3. Is there a fixed date to hit? If yes, ask which options can actually be delivered against it, and what notice each requires.

4. Does completion have to be evidenced to anyone? If so, establish what form that evidence takes and whether attendance alone satisfies the requirement, or whether an assessment or a pass is needed.

If none of the four applies, that is a reason to look harder at the free and official route above before pricing anything, not a reason to buy the cheapest row.

What to ask a provider

The prices above are list. These are the questions that change them, or change what they include — each has a definite answer a seller can put in writing:

• Does that price cover one participant, or a whole class regardless of how many attend?
• Is there a group or private rate, and at what headcount does it begin?
• For a private cohort: what is the minimum and maximum, and is it exclusive to us?
• Is the exam voucher included, and when does it expire?
• Is a retake included if someone does not pass first time?
• Is lab or practice-environment access included, for how long, and after the course too?
• Do you assess prerequisites or current level before enrolment?
• Can the content be adjusted to our environment, and at what cost?
• What are the delivery dates, the time zone, the daily hours, and the minimum notice?
• If delivered on site: where, and what do we need to provide?
• What accessibility accommodations are available?
• Can we substitute a different person, and what are the cancellation and rescheduling terms?
• What completion reporting do we receive — which fields, in what format, and when?
• How long do participants keep access to the material afterwards?

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