A business cannot survive if its products are not marketed in the proper way. Luckily for all the businesses out there, the number of candidates wanting to pursue a marketing career is growing tremendously.
The aim of this degree is to help students anticipate, manage, and satisfy customers’ needs and wants. By doing so, they will be able to effectively communicate the benefits of any business product to the targeted market.
Due to the fact that marketing is a complex industry, which tackles many areas ranging from market research to advertising and promotion, this degree focuses on all parts of the process before concentrating on a particular area of study.
Good news for marketing graduates! If you did not know yet, marketing is an essential aspect of all types of businesses, from all sectors of activity. Thus, all of them rely on marketers to promote and sell their products. A high market demand comes with many job opportunities available.
According to Labor Department Findings, graduates with a marketing degree can earn 98% more per hour than the ones working in the industry without having a specialised degree.
Furthermore, students are equipped with transferable skills, such as excellent communication abilities, strategic thinking, planning, data analysis and so on, that can be used in other industries too.
Marketing degrees can be studied either as Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BSc). The major difference lies in the presence of more scientific and technological aspects, which are commonly seen in a BSc rather than a BA.
Like most degrees, marketing courses last between three and four years, depending on the university. However, there are institutions which give students the possibility to do a two-year associate’s degree – also called a ‘foundation’ degree.
Even if graduating from both degrees qualifies candidates to work in this industry, a Bachelor degree has higher chances to lead you to well-paid jobs.
My experience in “Universidad del País Vasco” could have been better. You could find everything, from very good teachers to others who hated their jobs. The university’s resources were not bad, but some of them could usa a renovation. Worst of all, were the few facilities they gave you when you had a problem. So that it’s a university I wouldn’t recommend, but it has it’s good points.
View moreThe facilities are great and the communication to them is decent although it could be improved, especially in terms of prices or creating a student bonus. The study environment and classrooms are very good, as is the teaching staff, although perhaps many of the subjects are a bit outdated and not very up-to-date with the digital age. The degree is one of those that has the fewest professional opportunities, although it can always be made compatible with other professional opportunities from similar studies such as audiovisual communication or advertising.
View moreWhat I really liked about the UPV university program was the professionalism and the university atmosphere on campus. Before going to university I did a higher degree in finance, so the bachelor degree in marketing has helped me reinforce all the skills I acquired in the higher degree.
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