Marketing MSc | Brunel Business School

This course is no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry. Applications are open for September 2023/24 entry.

We typically receive a high number of applications for this course and therefore advise that you apply early. We fully assess and review all applications in a fair, transparent and consistent way in line with our Admissions Policy and there may be a short delay due to the volume of applications we receive. Please refer to this webpage for more details.

Good marketing is pivotal for business success. From delivering customer value to devising creative digital communications, marketing is a key area in the contemporary business world and offers many exciting and rewarding professional opportunities.

The Marketing MSc offers valuable and career enhancing pathways to study contemporary marketing principles and theories that are grounded in academic research and real world practice.   The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), and it is possible to gain sought after CIM qualifications in professional marketing and become a member while studying at Brunel Business School. You can obtain the CIM Certificate or Diploma in Professional Marketing at an approved training centre, and you have certain exemptions from the courses.

You will develop vocational and creative skills, systematic and critical thinking, and expertise that will enable you to generate, implement, and evaluate marketing and branding activities that will deliver value to employers and customers. Cutting edge academic and applied knowledge and experience can be obtained from all our modules whose teaching is grounded in the global practice of marketing in the twenty-first century.

The Marketing MSc consists of compulsory modules that give you a broad understanding of marketing in organisations of all sizes. Optional modules allow you to take a closer look at related areas of interest like CSR, social media, diversity in the workplace and branding.

This course can be studied 1 year full-time, 16 months full-time with placement or 2 years full-time with placement, starting in September. Or this course can be studied 15 months full-time, 19 months full-time with placement or 27 months full-time with placement, starting in January.

The course offers an excellent preparation for a career in marketing or associated fields, and in a myriad of organisations which require marketing services. 

We were one of the first business schools to offer postgraduate placements and you can now put your learning into practice through our six to twelve week or year-long work placement option. Find out more on our work placements page.

Our programmes are built with the specific aim of helping you enter the workplace fully equipped and confident of your abilities. As a masters graduate you’ll be equipped to enter a number of job roles, including: Business analyst; Business development manager; Marketing manager; Media buyer/planner; Management consultant; Project manager; Sales executive; Web content manager.

• A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or an equivalent internationally recognised qualification.

• IELTS: 6.5 (min 6 in all areas)
• Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
• BrunELT: 63% (min 58% in all areas)
• TOEFL: 90 (min 20 in all) 

Modules are usually assessed by individual assessment or by examination in May.

Coursework and examinations give you a chance to demonstrate critical and constructive thinking and reasoning. Your dissertation is a 12,000 word document that will show your ability to conceive, design and execute a major project, which confidently substantiates your chosen line of enquiry.