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Marketing (including Foundation Year) at University of Chester - UCAS

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Course summary

Your marketing future starts here! This course brings marketing to life with inspiring, real-world experiences, and is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Whilst studying on this course, you can develop into an outstanding business professional and discover a career you love. It’s a dynamic, competitive world for marketers today, so we will equip you with much more than marketing knowledge. Your future employers are seeking all the skills that we develop with you from day one, and when you graduate you will leave with valuable hands-on experience that will give you an edge at interview and in the workplace. In your first year you will gain an understanding of marketing in a real-life context along with essential digital marketing skills, and management awareness in areas such as finance, people and organisations. In year two, you will use this marketing knowledge to make key decisions, consider the different ways businesses operate around the world, and start to shape your career path by choosing placements that suit your personal interests and ambitions. In your final year you will carry out an original supervised research project into a subject of your choosing whilst completing a module designed to maximise your individual professional success. Everything you study will be anchored to today’s business world. You will be looking at small local businesses right through to the leading brands, as well as new trends in key marketing areas such customer behaviour and digital communications.

Modules

For the latest example of curriculum availability on this course, please refer to the University of Chester's Website.

Assessment method

There will be a broad range of assessment methods used throughout the programme so that students are exposed to the different types of task they might encounter in the workplace. These will include coursework in the form of reports, portfolios of work, simulation activities, presentations (such as pitches and debates, peer assessment, reflective reviews, evaluation reports. In some modules students will encounter class tests and practical assessments. We continuously review the assessment methods used in order that they adequately prepare students for graduate level employment.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Chartered Institute of Marketing

How to apply

Application codes

Course code:
N502
Institution code:
C55
Campus name:
Chester
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

The University of Chester considers a wide range of Level 3 qualifications and a wide range of professional / vocational qualifications.


Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
90%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
100%
Go onto work and study

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £5760 Year 1
Northern Ireland £5760 Year 1
Scotland £5760 Year 1
Wales £5760 Year 1
Channel Islands £5760 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

The tuition fee for the subsequent years of study on the full-time undergraduate degree will be charged at the undergraduate degree fee level. This fee is currently £9,535 a year the University may increase these fees at the start of each subsequent year of your course in line with inflation at that time, as measured by the Retail Price Index. These fee levels and increases are subject to any necessary government, and other regulatory, approvals.
Marketing (including Foundation Year) at University of Chester - UCAS