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Marketing (with Professional Practice Year)

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A level

C,C,C

96 UCAS Tariff points

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

MMM

96 UCAS Tariff points

UCAS Tariff

96

About this course


Course option

4years

Sandwich | 2024

Subject

Marketing

**Marketing graduates with a confident understanding of dynamic modern business marketing are highly employable. This professionally accredited degree ensures you are up to the minute with developments across communications digital and social media as well as essential business functions like finance human resource management and operations.**

Central to life in the 21st century marketing embraces psychology management sociology and popular culture. This course introduces you to all these wider fields while drilling down to study buyer behaviour marketing data analysis branding innovation competition media channels and communications. You engage with both the theory and practice of marketing making links between your studies and workplace practice. You also work on practical marketing projects from real companies learning from professional practitioners.

Our professionally accredited course provides you with the opportunity to take the Introductory Certificate in Marketing qualification awarded by the renowned Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) with further exemption opportunities for the CIM Professional Certificate and CIM Professional Diploma.

'I appreciate all the help you’ve given me over the years and would like you to know that you’ve made a huge impact in my life for which I will forever feel grateful! Thanks for being such great mentors!'
- Recent graduate winner of Executive Dean’s award

**Why choose this course?**
- Industry Expert Panel and constant opportunities with live projects - partner logos listed above

- Study the latest in marketing and communications developments across contemporary contexts including international business

- Learn from staff with extensive industry experience while working on real marketing projects

- Explore a range of potential career options including sales; brand management; business development; market research; communications; and customer liaison

- Benefit from a degree that allows you to step into a marketing career using your CIM qualification

- Develop your career opportunities with a year’s fee-free placement in industry (see below) building your experience adding to your CV and helping you make contacts for the future

- If you need a step up into higher education take the degree over four years and start with a Foundation Year

- Thriving Marketing Club with external events

- Accredited by Charted institute of Marketing Silver and The Institute of Data & Marketing (IDM)

Modules

- Business Practice Explored (BSS005-1) Compulsory
- Consumer Behaviour (MAR022-1) Compulsory
- Customer Relationship Management (MAR018-1) Compulsory
- Introduction To Digital Marketing And Analytics (MAR020-1) Compulsory
- Principles Of Marketing (MAR001-1) Compulsory
- Using Data To Build Business Practice (BSS004-1) Compulsory
- Brand Management (MAR016-2) Compulsory
- Career In Practice (MAR027-2) Compulsory
- Contemporary Issues In Marketing (MAR030-2) Compulsory
- Digital Innovation And Entrepreneurship (MAR038-2) Compulsory
- Interactive Marketing Management (MAR032-2) Compulsory
- Marketing Communications In The Digital Age (MAR021-2) Compulsory
- Continuing Professional Development (MAR027-3) Compulsory
- Marketing Ethics And Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) (MAR028-3) Compulsory
- Marketing In A Global Context (MAR014-3) Compulsory
- Preparation For Specialist Research Project (MAR029-3) Compulsory
- Specialist Research Project (MAR030-3) Compulsory
- Topical Marketing Communications Practice (MAR031-3) Compulsory

Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

Assessment methods

The assessment strategy supports the course's focus on being an independent learner and employability. Your subject knowledge and key skills such as team work, communication, information literacy, research and evaluation, creativity and critical thinking are tested throughout the course using various relevant assessments to meet the learning outcomes as well as your different learning styles.

The key subject themes increase in intensity as you progress to the next level and then to the final year, allowing you to build on previous knowledge. The assessments are therefore designed to support you to work both in a team and independently. The assessments reflects incremental learning as well as focus on being a confident independent learner by providing more group work opportunities at the start of your course to build your team skills and engagement, and progresses to more individual and guided assessments to challenge you academically and professionally. The variations of assessments you will engage with ensures that you accumulate all the skills necessary to interact efficiently within the world of marketing.

For all assessments, you will have an assignment brief which clearly sets out requirements and the criteria for grading your work; this develops your understanding of the assessment standards and what is needed to do well at a task. You will receive feedback on all your assessments to enable you to improve your learning. It is important that you use this feedback accordingly to maximise your performance on future assignments and to buttress your learning.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Luton Campus

Department:

Department of Business Systems and Operations

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

62%
Marketing

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Marketing

Teaching and learning

76%
Staff make the subject interesting
73%
Staff are good at explaining things
68%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
76%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

62%
Library resources
84%
IT resources
68%
Course specific equipment and facilities
35%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

45%
UK students
55%
International students
41%
Male students
59%
Female students
64%
2:1 or above
46%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

D
D
B

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Marketing

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£17,000
low
Average annual salary
97%
med
Employed or in further education
56%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

48%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
7%
Business, research and administrative professionals
7%
Customer service occupations

Want to join a fast-moving, diverse industry that's at the cutting edge of tech? Try marketing! A lot of the jobs are in London, but graduates don't just go to work in advertising agencies — all sorts of industries do their own marketing these days, and with the rise of digital and mobile technology, a lot of marketing is done in quite innovative ways using a wide range of methods. Common industries (apart from advertising and PR) include recruitment, online retail, higher education, banking and IT. A lot of jobs in this industry are handled through recruitment agencies, so if you get in touch with them early, that might give you a headstart for some of the jobs available. But be careful — unpaid working is not the norm in the marketing industry, but it is more common than in most sectors.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Marketing

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£18k

£18k

£22k

£22k

£26k

£26k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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