Career of university graduates with a focus on project management

The diploma thesis deals with a career in project management, specifically its beginning and associated study at universities. The first objective is to map and evaluate the current situation in the project management education at public universities in the Czech Republic. To achieve this, a survey was carried out among public universities based on a careful examination of their offerings of full-time follow-up master’s programs. The main output is the determination of the extent and the depth of project management education at public universities. The second objective, which follows on from the first one, is to analyze the situation of graduates who have completed some project management subjects and possibly work in project management. The quantitative research among the graduates of the full-time follow-up master’s programs of the last five years, which is a key part of this thesis, uses descriptive statistics, and the Pearson's chi-squared test and the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient are calculated for hypothesis testing. Research brings, to a large extent, completely new findings that fulfills the second objective. The findings relate to education, the attitudes of graduates to selected aspects of project management teaching, the first job of graduates in this field and the future direction of their careers. The thesis extends the knowledge about a career in project management. It particularly benefits those interested in study, lecturers and other project management entities.