Course summary

Our Foundation Year will help you take your first step into higher education, broadening your industry knowledge and enabling you to progress to a related undergraduate degree. It aims to help you develop a strong foundation of business knowledge, alongside academic and transferable skills to ensure you get the most out of your degree-level studies. Kickstart your career with a Marketing degree from Canterbury Christ Church University. Develop your creative thinking, practical skills and theoretical knowledge and engage with a range of marketing topics to help prepare you for a graduate career in a specialist or generalist marketing role. From setting budgets to finding new customers, a marketing degree will boost your experience, knowledge, and skills, which will prepare you for employment upon graduation. Our course reflects some of the latest developments in marketing including AI, VR and AR. Studying marketing offers a huge range of career opportunities and will give you a competitive edge when applying for jobs. You'll study modules that will ensure you are equipped with a wider view of marketing including links to psychology, sociology, business, accounting and politics. Furthermore, our degree is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM). You can take these professional qualifications alongside your main degree to further enhance your CV. You’ll engage with professionals in marketing, PR, and advertising industries, and have opportunities to meet and listen to industry experts so you can gain real-world insights. We know employers are looking for dynamic, open-minded graduates who can adapt, innovate, and collaborate. This is why we have designed a new way of teaching and learning to ensure that you are work-ready for when you graduate. Our 2026 course will reflect this new approach. The 2026 course page will be made live shortly. Professional accreditation Our degree is accredited by two leading professional bodies - the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM) and in addition to your degree, you can choose to take professional qualifications. Location This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.