International Marketing (Top-up), Undergraduate - BA (Hons) - 2022/23 entry

Youll be put into a range of exciting and innovative scenarios, strengthening your expertise and learning from different cultures and experiences.

On this top-up year, you will take a range of advanced modules that look at current marketing methods and contemporary business issues, such as contemporary advertising, e-business and marketing strategy and planning.

Hands-on learning will go alongside more conventional teaching methods like lectures and seminars on this course. Youll be put in a range of scenarios, such as assuming the role of an international marketing manager, strengthening your expertise in the areas employers want. Youll get to mix and collaborate with students on other marketing courses and exchange different ideas and experiences.

The course combines business theory with exciting current marketing themes, such as emerging digital media and the importance of a positive consumer experience. From day one, youll start to understand how organisations operate and what their current challenges and opportunities are. Youll look at how emerging technologies and consumer experience can have a profound effect on how successful a business can be.

Youll have the opportunity to work on real-life briefs with real clients, thanks to our own student marketing agency, The Link, which is run by our undergraduates and students take on live client briefs, with our students recently getting to work on a campaign for the Bullring.

You will benefit from close tutor support and form strong partnerships with our staff. They are all marketing experts who have had successful careers, and theyll share their experience and marketing know-how with you.

Certificate of General Secondary Education 60% PLUS Community College Diploma/Associate Degree with minimum grade 60% / 2.5 / C+

Note: Engineering courses require minimum C+ score in Mathematics.

Even though you may have met the stated requirements, if your first language is not English, we may ask you to take an additional English Language Test when you arrive.

Based on the results of the test, you may be required to attend regular English classes to improve your level of competence. English classes are provided free of charge and are available to all non-UK students who wish to attain greater fluency in English.

Enhancing employability skills

This course allows you to tailor your study around the job role and the career you want. By teaching you to apply what you learn to real business scenarios, you can walk into employment, having already dealt with many situations you find in the working world.

You’ll have many opportunities to work with actual businesses and build your CV. These arise through The Link, our very own marketing agency, and university competitions, Employability Challenge Week, the Leadership Challenge, well as activities and competitions further afield.

The specialist marketing modules will give you the opportunity to strengthen and prepare you to move towards a career in the marketing industry.