赫瑞瓦特大学的战略项目管理通过将更多的重点放在管理项目组合以实现组织目标的战略要求上，使其与其他项目管理计划脱颖而出。这样，战略项目管理既将项目管理作为交付最终产品的过程，又将变更管理作为捕获受变更影响的人们的理性和情感认同以确保其成功的过程。战略项目管理的研究生学历可以使业务，工程，IT或科学领域的个人受益，这些人的工作涉及管理或指导具有战略重点和确定的最终目标的工作。
Strategic Project Management at Heriot-Watt University differentiates itself from other project management programmes by putting a greater emphasis on the strategic requirement in managing a portfolio of projects to deliver organisational goals. In this way, Strategic Project Management encompasses both project management as a process to deliver end products and change management as a process to capture the rational and emotional buy-in of the people affected by change to ensure its success. A postgraduate qualification in Strategic Project Management can benefit individuals in business, engineering, IT or science whose job involves managing or directing work that has a strategic focus and a defined end goal. This programme reflects the content of the Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.