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Marketing – (M.A.)
Keele University
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| Application Deadline: | July 31 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,840 - ≈ € 10,600 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Keele / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The MA in Marketing is designed for students who wish to follow a career in marketing within commercial, professional, industrial or public organisations, and who also require an appreciation of the wider business context.
The MA in Marketing is designed to provide a rigorous understanding of marketing and contemporary marketing practice, underpinned by theoretically-informed and critical approaches to marketing and management. The course combines conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches to the study of marketing.
Successful students will gain:
* Thorough understanding of contemporary marketing knowledge and techniques, as applied in a range of commercial and public organisations.
* Critical awareness of, and evaluation of, current marketing theory, informed by leading edge research in the field.
* Analytical and creative techniques to deal with complex marketing problems and their solutions.
* Enhanced management skills and practical marketing skills leading to improved employability.
It is anticipated that at the end of this course the majority of graduates will progress directly into related employment. Typical career destinations may include employment as account managers, brand managers, product managers, marketing managers, also posts in general management requiring a specialism in marketing. Employment may be found within commercial, professional, industrial or public organisations.
Contents
During the first semester (September to January) students study four core modules, followed in the second semester (January to May) by a further four modules, some of which are options chosen by the student. Each taught module is worth 15 credits. In the later stages students undertake a project or a dissertation which is worth 60 credits. Students gaining 180 credits from a combination of taught modules and the successful completion of the dissertation will be awarded an MA. Students gaining 120 credits but not proceeding to the dissertation/project will be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma. Students who do not gain 120 credits but pass modules worth 60 credits will be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate.
Course Modules
The following list indicates the range of modules that may be offered:
* Marketing Management: Provides an overview of marketing and how it is performed and organised in a variety of market settings. This module is studied early in the course and begins to develop a wide range of underpinning skills and knowledge relevant to the course as a whole.
* Consuming Behaviours: Evaluates and explores the relationship between marketers and consumers, underpinning cultural practice that drives consumption, and ways in which marketing managers can use this knowledge and understanding to reach consumers.
* Marketing Research Theory and Practice: Provides a framework for marketers to understand philosophical debates about research, and to consider appropriate methodology and methods, whether involving qualitative and quantitative data and approaches.
* Contemporary Issues in Marketing: Considers contemporary thinking in marketing, and the theories that are currently shaping and influencing marketing practice and practitioners. Areas of interest here could be, for example: ethics and advertising, internal markets and relationships; food marketing and obesity; the need for a ‘consumer culture theory’; marketing debates of the day. This module will focus on recent developments and current concerns for the
* interrelationships between marketing, society and culture, and will involve external guest speakers, as well as interactions with, and visits to, external events of relevance to marketers today.
* Strategy and Information Management: Widens the focus of study to consider issues and insights at corporate strategic level, and to evaluate the influences of this level of decision-making upon functional areas, including marketing.
* Accounting and Finance: Provides students with a working knowledge of relevant aspects of financial and management accounts, so that as market practitioners they can engage with other specialists in the organisation.
* Dissertation: 60 credits underpinned by the Marketing Research and Contemporary Issues modules in particular, focusing on a relevant aspect of marketing, and demonstrating engagement with current thinking in marketing.
An option module may be chosen from a list that would typically include a range of general management as well as marketing modules.
Titles could include, for example:
* Branding
* IT and Commerce
* Strategic Entrepreneurship
* Marketing Communications Theory
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All applicants must hold a good honours degree or overseas equivalent. Students who have appropriate professional qualifications or relevant work experience may also be considered. The University uses a range of relevant selection criteria including academic qualifications, professional experience, evidence of likely commitment to academic study, and an estimate of a candidate´s future potential.
Anyone applying from a country where English is not the first language is required to take an official test of English language obtaining at least IELTS 6.5/TOEFL 577 or above. Overseas applicants are advised that although it is not an entry requirement, submission of a GRE or GMAT score will be taken as a positive indication of readiness for graduate study.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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