MSc Marketing
Key Details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Science
- Course Length
- 1 year
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
Course Overview
Prepare for a high-flying career in marketing with our intense MSc course. Marketing involves identifying customers and satisfying their needs, but the best marketers understand the broader business context.
In this Master’s course, you’ll learn to identify, evaluate, and execute marketing strategies while engaging and collaborating with company-wide specialisms. You don’t need prior marketing study or work experience to excel in this course. You’ll be introduced to key concepts and practices before delving deeper. If you have an undergraduate degree in marketing or related experience, this degree will push your skills and capabilities further.
This course provides an excellent foundation for a marketing career and is ideal for those with their own business or those working in a family business who are looking to enhance their marketing skills. Over 12 months of intensive study, you’ll gain intellectual and practical marketing skills, exploring theories, concepts, and techniques. You’ll build the analytical tools necessary for a lifetime of meaningful marketing decisions and learn to lead and respond both operationally and strategically in the dynamic global marketplace.
You’ll study the fundamentals of marketing and investigate new critical areas such as internationalisation, the global marketplace, the power of the internet, and socially responsible marketing. You’ll learn to analyse markets and their behaviours, develop effective brands, and collaborate with non-marketing specialists - an essential skill for successful marketing professionals. You’ll explore the impact of marketing strategies on growth, cash flow, and profit, develop key management skills, and become adept at integrating organisational processes, systems, and people to meet marketing challenges and goals.
Your studies will have an international outlook. You’ll examine business issues globally, learn from international lecturers, and be part of a diverse student body, ensuring you graduate ready to succeed on the international stage in an impactful and rewarding career.
Accreditations
The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the leading professional body for marketers worldwide. That means that on successful completion of the course, you’ll be exempt from some of the modules required for CIM’s highly respected Diploma in Professional Marketing.
The MSc Marketing and MSc Marketing and Management degree programmes have been successfully awarded Graduate Gateway status by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). This means that after graduating in one of these degrees at an appropriate level, students achieve exemptions from particular modules on the CIM Certificate or Diploma in Professional Marketing.
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Study and Modules
Structure
In your first semester you’ll gain a firm foundation in both your subject and other essential business functions. You’ll explore the history of marketing before going on to look at marketing strategy. You’ll also study the theory of marketing and discover different marketing models. And you’ll gain experience in key marketing methods, from print to digital, to evolving channels such as social media.
Your first semester is a great chance to explore different areas of marketing and business and discover the areas you might like to specialise in during the rest of your studies and later career.
In your second semester, you’ll have the chance to specialise by choosing from a range of optional modules.
Unlike other Master’s courses where your third semester is spent on independent study, you’ll benefit from a third semester of taught modules. You’ll spend this semester consolidating your learning and further developing your critical thinking skills.
Across all your modules, your studies will be grounded in the real world. For example, you’ll develop your thinking by interrogating the strategic marketing plans of real businesses, asking how you might do things differently, or what techniques might work in other businesses. Case studies will have a global outlook. For example, you might find yourself studying international businesses such as Lululemon, Airbnb or Tesla. This ensures that you graduate ready to excel on an international scale, whether that’s returning to your home country to work, working in a business with international clients, or taking a role with a multinational corporation.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 60)Optional B Modules
(Credits: 20)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You’ll benefit from teaching that is research-led and industry-relevant. You’ll learn from lecturers, academics and guest lecturers who are engaged in cutting-edge research and/or have practical experience in business.
Learning takes place through a mix of lectures, seminars, group work, presentations, case study analysis, and individual study. Teaching takes place both face-to-face and online. The course is taught using a combination of synchronous and asynchronous activities. Our lectures are often highly interactive, with group tasks, games, learning technologies, direct polls and video.
Throughout your studies there will be an emphasis not only on learning how to apply key marketing and management theories, but also how to think about them critically in a modern context.
There is no dissertation on this degree, which means you’ll benefit from a greater number of taught modules. Although there is no dissertation, you’ll have the chance to hone your research skills by researching primary and secondary sources during your modules.
Assessment
During the programme your knowledge is assessed using a broad range of assessment methods (e.g. coursework, group-projects, and presentations). You’ll be able to submit formative and summative work for assessment, and you’ll receive feedback on your work to help you identify areas for improvement and areas of strength.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
Degree classification
Bachelors degree - 2.2
Degree Subject
Any subject area. Please note that if you have studied business before at undergraduate or postgraduate level, there may be some overlap. Therefore we recommend you check the modules carefully to make sure that this course is right for you.
- Additional Entry Requirements
This MSc course is open to all students who meet the entry requirements but it is primarily aimed at students who have not previously studied a business-related degree, have limited business knowledge from their undergraduate degree, or have a general business degree and would like to now specialise. If you have a business degree, please check the course modules and content carefully to ensure the programme meets your needs and future career aspirations and requirements Alternatively, please consider one of our Professional courses which may be more suitable.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical International Entry Requirements
Degree classification
UK Bachelors degree - 2.2 or equivalent
Degree Subject
Any subject area. Please note that if you have studied business before at undergraduate or postgraduate level, there may be some overlap. Therefore we recommend you check the modules carefully to make sure that this course is right for you.
- Additional Entry Requirements
This MSc course is open to all students who meet the entry requirements but it is primarily aimed at students who have not previously studied a business-related degree, have limited business knowledge from their undergraduate degree, or have a general business degree and would like to now specialise. If you have a business degree, please check the course modules and content carefully to ensure the programme meets your needs and future career aspirations and requirements Alternatively, please consider one of our Professional courses which may be more suitable.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 6.0 in Writing and Speaking, and 5.5 in Reading and Listening)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
If you do not meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the required English skills.
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- INTO UEA
If you do not meet the academic requirements for this course, you may be able to study the International Pre-Masters programme offered by our partner INTO UEA. This programme guarantees progression to selected Master's degrees if students achieve the appropriate grade. For more details, please click here:
International Pre-Masters in Business, Economics and Social Sciences
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2025/26 are:
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UK Students: £13,800
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International Students: £24,300
We estimate living expenses at £1,136 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.
Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.
How to Apply
How to apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form.
Further information
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk
International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.
Employability
After the Course
You’ll graduate ready to unlock the power of marketing to help businesses succeed. You’ll have the skills and confidence needed to thrive in both domestic and international organisations. And you’ll be ready to work in marketing in a number of sectors, including telecoms, technology, international trade, retail and more. You could work in business-to-business marketing, or consumer marketing. And you could work within companies or in agencies.
Throughout the course there’ll be a strong focus on employability, providing you with the key transferable skills required to work in marketing.
Careers
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- Marketing executive
- Sales executive
- Junior managerial positions
- Advertising executive
- PR
Discover more on our Careers webpages.