Project Management Professional training cost: what 3 providers publish

Project Management Professional (exam PMP) is a certification awarded on passing its exam AND meeting the vendor's eligibility requirements. A paid prep course is optional and separate from the exam, but the vendor's own education or training requirement is not — below is what providers publish to prepare you for it. No provider paid for placement or ordering here and none can; if you later ask us to introduce you to one, that introduction may earn us a fee, and it still cannot change a price, an ordering, or a word on this page.

Before you buy training, check you can actually be certified. PMI requires one of three eligibility sets before applying: high-school/secondary diploma plus 60 months/5 years leading and managing projects in the past 8 years; bachelor degree or higher plus 36 months/3 years; or GAC-accredited bachelor degree or higher plus 24 months/2 years. Each route also requires 35 hours of project-management education/training or an approved substitute such as CAPM. CAPM or PMI-approved PMP exam-prep training can satisfy the 35-hour education/training requirement; it does not replace project-leadership experience. Read from the vendor's own eligibility page, 2026-06-25.

Before you price this: Not a withdrawal. PMI launched an updated PMP exam on 2026-07-09 against a new Examination Content Outline dated July 2026; 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.

See the certification itself: Project Management Professional.

Try the free route before you price the paid one

You may not need to buy a course at all. The page below collects the free and official study material published for Project Management Professional, with the date each link was checked. Work through that first and see where you actually stop: if it gets you to the exam, the table further down is money you did not have to spend, and if it does not, you will know which specific gap you would be paying a provider to close.

Free and official study for Project Management Professional

Published training prices, by provider

Read the rows before you read the prices. These are not comparable offerings. A self-paced subscription and a live instructor-led class appear in the same table because both are published prices for preparing for the same exam, not because they are the same product. Delivery mode, whether the exam fee is included, and how long you keep access all differ — so the lowest number here is the cheapest listed price, and nothing more than that.

Every price in this table is published by the provider and captured on the date shown in 'As of'. Providers change list prices without notice, so treat an older reading as a starting point and confirm on the provider's own page before you budget. They are training prices, not the exam fee. 'Exam' shows whether the provider states the exam fee is included in the price, is not, or says nothing either way, and 'Includes / access' repeats the provider's own description of what the course covers — their words, not ours. Where a provider describes a course in PDUs, those are professional development units for maintaining a credential you already hold; they are not the same thing as the contact hours a certifying body may require before you can apply. Check the eligibility requirement on this page against what the provider actually says it delivers.

Published spread

Among the 3 provider prices verified below, the published training cost for Project Management Professional at ordinary commercial rates ranges from $1,995 per course (New Horizons, Virtual instructor-led) to $3,350 per course (Learning Tree International, online). This is a published-price range, not a recommendation — delivery mode, exam inclusion, and what's bundled differ, so the numbers are not apples-to-apples.

Budget for the exam separately wherever 'Exam' shows exam fee not included. Where it shows not stated, the provider's page did not say either way — ask before you buy. For two of the seventeen providers we track we found no published price on the pages we checked — those pages ask you to request a quote — so they cannot appear above at all. See the training providers hub.

Government and GSA schedule rates

These are schedule rates, not public prices. They are listed separately because eligibility is restricted and they are not part of the range above — confirm with the provider whether your organisation qualifies before treating one as available to you.

Deciding whether to pay

The question these prices answer is not whether to take Project Management Professional — it is whether to pay someone to prepare you for it. That turns on something the table cannot tell you: whether you will actually finish without a schedule, whether you need an environment you cannot build yourself, and whether anyone else is paying. Work the free and official route first, because it is the baseline every price above has to beat, and the point where it stops being enough is the specific gap you would be buying. If you are weighing a structured course against studying on your own, bootcamp versus self-study works through that decision with the same published prices.