IN BRIEF:
- Enhance your employability with specialist and in-demand marketing skills on this CIM-approved and accredited course
- Develop your expertise in search and social media marketing
- Put marketing theory into real practice with an exciting Business Innovation Project
- Part-time study option
- Overseas study available
- Work/industrial placement opportunity
- International students can apply
COURSE SUMMARY
This course will equip you with the latest marketing knowledge and skills needed to succeed in today’s demanding global economy.
During your time with us, you’ll examine products and services which are highly desirable to consumers, while running real-life campaigns in search and social media marketing to establish appropriate pricing and presentation. This is a researchinformed programme with a highly practical slant.
On completion of the course, you will be in a strong position to take advantage of a wide range of managerial career opportunities.You may also choose to take advantage a blended distance learning opportunity, available through our official partner - Robert Kennedy College - in Zurich, Switzerland.
TEACHING
The course is currently delivered in four blocks of three-day intensive study periods, followed by independent study and online support through the University’s virtual learning environment, Blackboard. Each module is taken and assessed over a six week block.
From September 2017, this delivery format will change. Students will continue to study a single module for a 6 week period. Face to face teaching will be delivered on campus for two half days each week. In addition, you will attend the taught element of the Business Innovation Programme each Wednesday afternoon during the 6 week blocks, with independent study completed in your own time through Blackboard. Individual student timetables will be provided during induction week.
Teaching is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials using a wide range of learning activities.
ASSESSMENT
Over the duration of your course a range of assessment techniques will be used. Types of assessment include; essays, assignments, exams, multiple choice tests, online tests, group reports, and portfolio work. The weighting between exams and coursework varies between modules and years.
EMPLOYABILITY
You will gain a highly regarded formal qualification, as well as personal and organisational management skills that will enhance your career prospects. Our graduates have gone on to gain employment in a wide range of organisations, working in areas including brand management, marketing communications, social media marketing and heritage marketing.
This course will provide you with flexible employment opportunities leading to potential roles with a variety of management-level national and international sectors.
Recent Salford Business School graduates have gained employment with leading companies including:
- Ernst & Young
- Dixons Group plc
- British Airways
- Cooperative Insurance Services
- BMW
- American Express
- BBC
- Citibank
- Ladbrokes
- Numberica
- Office of the Legal Services Ombudsman
- KPMG
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Premier Travel Inn
- BUPA
- Thomson Holidays
- BT
- DTS Logistics
- Greater Manchester Police
- The NHS
FACILITIES
Salford Business School is located at the heart of the University’s Peel campus in the newly refurbished Lady Hale Building, and the Chapman Building, offering state-of-the-art facilities for the Business School’s student learning community and just minutes from Manchester city centre. Chapman is a stylish modern space with six lecture theatres equipped with the very latest technology and large screen displays, a series of communal learning and breakout spaces, plus a Fairtrade café with panoramic views across the campus.
Lady Hale is the home to all dedicated business school student support including the school office, an employability hub, a base for the Business School society, and several open study spaces.
All University of Salford students also have access to the MediaCityUK campus including its study facilities. MediaCityUK is home to major BBC and ITV departments and over 80 businesses across the creative and digital sectors. It is recognised as one of the most innovative developments in Britain and is a vibrant place in which to live, work, socialise and study.
Visit the
Marketing - MSc/PGDip/PGCert
page on the University of Salford website for more details!
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