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Huddersfield Business School

Marketing BA(Hons)

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21 September 2026

Duration

3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

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120-112

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About this course

Overview

Why choose Huddersfield for this course?

  • Gain hands-on experience creating real marketing campaigns from day one.
  • Earn professional recognition with CIM and DMA accreditation.
  • Build skills using industry tools like Canva, Google Analytics 4, and AI software such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Co-Pilot.

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Our Marketing BA(Hons) degree is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to succeed in the ever-evolving world of marketing. With a strong emphasis on strategic and creative marketing and emerging trends, you’ll gain expertise in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), influencer marketing, consumer behaviour, social media and much more. Throughout the course, you’ll have access to a range of industry-standard tools and software including Google Analytics 4, Canva, and cutting-edge AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Co-Pilot.

Our course is accredited by both the Data and Marketing Association DMA and Chartered Institute of Marketing CIM, meaning you gain a professional qualification alongside your degree, as well as access to exclusive competitions and industry networking events. You’ll take part in live client projects, attend masterclasses delivered by marketing professionals, and analyse real-world case studies from local and global brands. These experiences will help you build a professional portfolio to showcase your skills and expertise to future employers.

Why study Marketing BA(Hons)

Future-Focused Learning: Build your understanding of traditional marketing strategies while developing digital expertise through dynamic, cutting-edge modules that explore the latest marketing trends, including artificial intelligence, digital transformation, consumer behaviour, influencer marketing, and content creation. Delivered by a team of industry practitioners and experienced academics, we were the first to offer marketing at an undergraduate level and continue to lead the way, equipping you with the skills employers are seeking in today’s competitive industry

  • Hands-On Experience: Build practical skills and a professional network through live projects, guest lectures, content creation and collaborations with industry leaders. Enhance your career prospects with the option to undertake a year-long paid work placement and earn professional qualifications from the CIM and DMA.
  • Learn Industry-Standard Tools: Gain expertise in essential marketing platforms and software, including Canva, Google Analytics 4, and AI-driven tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Co-Pilot. These technical skills will equip you with the expertise employers are looking for in a competitive market.
  • Career-Ready Focus: Whether you aspire to become a global marketing executive, brand manager, content creator—or even start your own business—our course prepares you for a wide range of exciting career opportunities in the marketing industry.

The top five job titles advertised in the UK for graduate roles associated with Marketing BA(Hons) are Account Managers, Marketing Executives, Merchandisers, Marketing Assistants and Key Account Managers.*

*Lightcast data extracted from Graduate Career Explorer – job postings from Dec 2023 to Nov 2024 showing jobs advertised associated with a selection of relevant graduate.

Career opportunities after the course *

Account Manager

Marketing Executive

Merchandisers

Key Account Managers

Marketing Assistants

*Lightcast

Who can apply?

Entry Requirements

BBB-BBC at A Level
DDM-DMM in BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma
120-112 UCAS tariff points from a combination of Level 3 qualifications
Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits at Merit or above
Merit at T Level
120-112 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.

What will you learn?

Course Details

The Professional Marketing modules provide a coherent and progressive framework to support your academic, personal and professional potential. The emphasis in Year 1, Marketing in Practice, is on developing the academic skills you need to engage in your course, but also develop a range of skills relevant to the varied demands of the marketing industry through practical application. In addition, the module will address a broader curriculum of personal and professional development within a marketing context through the identification of the core skills of a professional marketer. It will introduce you to theories, models and strategies relevant to skill development and success at university and in the workplace. Throughout the module, you will be encouraged to recognise your capabilities, take responsibility for your learning and work effectively with your peers.

In this module, you will explore the pressing global issues, such as globalisation, climate change, digital age, and sustainability, that businesses are confronted in their operations. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, you will gain knowledge and develop a critical understanding of how these issues represent challenges as well as opportunities to business and related organisations. As you progress through the module, you will develop a habit to follow the developments of global events, give them a meaning and consider the causes and consequences of ongoing developments. This module is designed to raise you awareness of an increasingly dynamic business environment.

This module critically discusses key theories relevant to digital marketing communications. Strengths and weakness of different marketing communications channels and platforms (offline, online, integrated) will be analysed as well as their effectiveness. The role of digital marketing communication content, format, and source are discussed as well as psychological processes involved in consumers' processing of and response to such communication materials. The module explains how different digital marketing communications platforms can be combined to achieve specific marketing objectives. This module discusses the ethical and legal issues relevant to digital marketing communications.

This module is designed to introduce and analyse marketing and consumption in their social context. Marketing emerges differently depending on the type of society in which it develops. Consumption is a complex phenomenon immersed in human social attitudes and behaviours. Thus, marketing and consumption are explored in this module in relation to broader contemporary sociocultural trends and issues. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of marketing and consumption, this module aims to develop your critical awareness of the interrelationships, consequences and tensions that exist between the marketer and the consumer at the individual and collective level, as well as between the marketer, consumer, business, and government.

This module provides you with an introduction to key concepts, theories and research in the field of organisational behaviour. Starting with the important question what is an organisation, this module presents and evaluates up to date research on current knowledge about human and organisation behaviour from the perspective of three levels: individual level (personality, motivation, knowledge and learning), group level (organisational culture, team-working) and the organisational level (leadership, changing world of work, technology). An examination of these three levels will provide an insight into the world of work both for employees and future managers. Emphasis on the module is placed on introducing and applying management theory with a critical perspective adopted throughout. Overall, focus on the module is directed towards equipping you with sufficient knowledge to be able to understand the role of the manager in a contemporary organisation and to critically explore the role of influence a range of behaviours have on organisational outcomes.

This module will develop your understanding of the principles and practice of contemporary marketing management. You'll be introduced to the key concepts and tools of marketing including analysis, planning, implementation and control.

The Professional Marketing modules provide a coherent and progressive framework to support your academic, personal and professional potential. The emphasis in Year 2, The Marketing Researcher, is on developing your knowledge, skills and experience to develop your professional profile. In this module you will investigate and develop a range of skills relevant to the varied demands of the marketing industry through practical application. To support this you will explore the value of analytical data and how this supports the creation of Business Intelligence for decision making. You will investigate different analytical methods and apply them within the business context, looking at strategy, business goals and organisational competitive advantage. It will also seek to develop generic marketing principles and transferable personal skills using the demands of the many sectors of the marketing industries. We will continue to provide an inclusive environment that emphasises the importance of individual resilience and wellbeing at this mid-point of your studies and prepares you for your placement year or final year.

This module is designed to introduce you to social media marketing. It will help keep you at the forefront of modern practices: bridging the gap between theory and its practical application, it will also focus on several different aspects including B2B, B2C and Service. You’ll have the opportunity to use a variety of social media tools and platforms to design, manage, and optimise campaigns. This module is for individuals who have not used the social channels in a business context extensively but have a good understanding of traditional marketing techniques

This module is designed to introduce and develop essential brands and branding knowledge to the students. From the origin of brands to modern branding strategies and techniques, this module will cover the theories and processes that are critical to developing effective brand messages. The functional and symbolic value of brands will be discussed in this module and their societal and environmental impact will be highlighted. By the completion of this module, you will be able to understand the strategic importance of branding in creating and maintaining a differentiation and competitive advantage over competitors and the crucial role it plays in sustainable business growth.

This module will take a strategic view of service marketing, focusing on a variety of organisational contexts including public and private sectors as well as commercial and social enterprises considering both on-line and off-line platforms. The unique nature of service industries is explored in a contemporary context, while theories and tools required to understand and implement the strategic operations of services marketing are examined. Specifically, the module examines all aspects of the services marketing mix, the services environment and the creation of a service culture in both online and offline contexts.

This module is designed to further develop your understanding of digital marketing, exploring the use of creative content to capture your audience online and to influence customers. Content creation and implementation will be considered in relation to specific marketing communication objectives, within the wider context of the marketing plan, and working within the setting of the contemporary promotional environment. Throughout the module you’ll have the opportunity to use a variety of tools and platforms to produce professional, creative, competent and coherent content for social media.

The overall aim of this module is to understand how insights into consumers and their consumption practices can be used to formulate effective marketing strategy. Traditional and contemporary theories of both the psychology and sociology of consumer behaviour provide the necessary analytical tools to guide the development and application of consumer insights.

The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.

    The Professional Marketing modules provide a coherent and progressive framework to support your academic, personal and professional potential. The emphasis in Year 3 'The Marketing Professional' will be on your transition from higher education to the workplace. You will have an opportunity to build on your knowledge, skills and experience that you have developed during your time at university and clearly express your career aspirations. Using recruitment and selection simulations, you will prepare tailored CVs and learn how to perform well within different selection situations. In preparation for your move into the changing world of work, we will explore what it means to be globally and socially aware and you will learn about intercultural effectiveness through case studies and group tasks. There will also be an emphasis on strengthening your leadership capabilities and decision-making within complex and unpredictable contexts. We will continue to reinforce the value of an inclusive environment that sustains you during your final year of study and prepares you for your post-degree choices.

    This module is designed to develop and integrate your knowledge of the concepts, theories and practices associated with digital marketing. It keeps you at the forefront of modern practices bridging the gap between theory and its practical application into developing a strategic campaign and communications plan. You’ll learn how to manage and control a digital marketing campaign, to critically evaluate your own or others’ professional practice as campaign managers, and you’ll be introduced to the concepts project management, resource administration and cost control.

    This module focuses you on addressing a live marketing problem utilising specialist marketing knowledge to create and develop effective communications for an organisation. You'll develop and demonstrate creative thinking and visualisation including, content creation, branding, and new media in order to develop brand equity and deliver customer value. The content and application of this module are designed to enhance practical skills in the development of creative communication plans, within the context of an integrated marketing strategy. To support this, the module will explore current consumer trends, and contemporary and creative communications strategies and practices.

    This module will consolidate and build on previous studies in marketing within a strategic marketing planning framework. The module gives you the opportunity to develop your analytical and practical skills in relation to creating, presenting and defending strategic marketing plans, which you will then implement in a case-study based individual and group assignment computer-based simulation of a dynamic, and highly competitive, marketing environment.

    This module is an opportunity for you to conduct a research project in an area of business and management that relates to your personal and professional interests. You'll work one-to-one with an experienced supervisor who will help you develop and implement your research ideas. This module will not only deepen your knowledge of a particular business and management topic, but also help you build your practical research and report-writing skills.

    The aim of this module is to help develop your understanding of the marketing theory and principles within the international or global business arena. It involves the consideration of the international marketing environment and the application of marketing principles for companies operating in foreign and world markets.

    Marketing is important, entrepreneurship is vital, and 95% of businesses anywhere in the world are small. When large organisations seek to improve performance – they often turn to the young dynamic small businesses as their role model. We weave these themes together into what can be called entrepreneurial marketing

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    Placements

    The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.

    Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.

    Previous placement providers have included Boxer Gifts, Buy it Direct, Compliance 365, Cummins Turbo Technologies, Digital Velocity, Enterprise rent a car, EPY, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Malaysian Development Industrial Finance Berhad (MIDF), Mamas and Papas, Microsoft, National Physical Laboratory, PPG Architectural Coatings EMEA, PZ Cussons, Smiler Service Ltd, The Baby Room, The Sharp Agency, Thornton and Ross, Vizulate, Walt Disney, Weidmann and Xtra Mile Marketing.

    The placement year is a valuable tool that can enhance your employability and help you to develop as an individual. It is acknowledged that graduates with industry experience are generally much more attractive to employers.

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    My course is preparing for my career by allowing a year's industry experience to on placement. Placement year has been great for me, allowing me to get industry experience and learning how to write a proper CV and cover letter. Helping me get a job once I graduate.

    - Luke Widdowson
    Placement Student, Univeristy of Huddersfield

    Where could this lead you?

    Your Career

    Previous graduates from this subject have gone on to roles such as global marketing executive, account manager, PR executive, digital marketing executive and marketing manager in organisations including the Walt Disney Company, Hewlett Packard (HP), Bradford Live, Lloyds Banking Group, the NHS, Asda and The Bigger Boat.

    82%
    of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating.

    * HESA Graduate Outcomes 21/22, UK domiciled graduates, other activities excluded.

    My course let me explore a wide range of marketing topics, helping me understand where I want to take my career. I’ve also met people from all walks of life and built friendships I’d never have experienced without higher education.

    - Rihab Irqam
    Studied Marketing BA(Hons). Currently works at EDMI Europe Limited as a Customer Service Analyst.

    Our graduates work at some of the world's biggest companies.

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    £9,790 per year

    This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.

    Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy. 

    From January 2027 the UK government is launching a new student funding system for people starting university education. Read more about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).

    For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/study/fees/

    £17,600 per year

    This information is for international students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.

    Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy. 

    For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/fees-and-funding/

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    The tuition fee for a placement year is £1000. If you go on work experience or work placement, you will need to fund your own travel and/or accommodation costs to and from the placement.  Please be aware that if your placement is outside of the UK, you will still be responsible for your travel and living expenses and may need to consider issues like health care and insurance costs.

    International

    The tuition fee for a placement year is £3,300. If you go on work experience or work placement, you will need to fund your own travel and/or accommodation costs to and from the placement.  Please be aware that if your placement is outside of the UK, you will still be responsible for your travel and living expenses and may need to consider issues like health care and insurance costs.

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