MSc Marketing

Birmingham City University

Overview This course expose you to the fundamental skills and attributes you need to become a successful marketer. You will learn how to negotiate the challenges and issues that businesses and third-sector organisations face, in marketing their products, services and experiences. You will experience working in internationally diverse, team-based projects, collaborating to deliver professional reports and presentations as part of module assessments. These assessments will reflect the professional practice of marketing, including contemporary focus on responsible and sustainable marketing management, in a sophisticated digital world. Throughout the course, the course team will give you the support you need to realise your potential and we look forward to working with you to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills for the marketing career of your choice. What's covered in this course? You will learn about the fundamental principles of marketing management within a global context. This will cover fundamental principles such as value proposition, focussing on the consumer and their behaviour. The increasingly sophisticated nature of contemporary advertising will segue into digital marketing and AI, combining creativity with digital analytics to produce rounded marketers, complete with the skill base required by contemporary employers and agencies. You will establish the importance and impact of efficient marketing, developing the skills and insights of a successful, strategic, marketing manager. Customers are at the heart of every business, and marketing places you at the centre of corporate strategy and its application. You’ll become knowledgeable in knowing how to make a company stand out from the competition, developing innovative brand and communications plans, while also being attentive to the triple bottom-line of people, profit and planet.