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MA Brand Marketing and Management
School/s
Bath Business School
Campus or location
Newton Park
Course length
One year full-time or two years part-time.

Entry requirements

You'll usually have a good honours degree in any academic subject. You may be considered without a degree, if you can demonstrate relevant experience. You may be asked to attend an interview.

Please contact our admissions team for more information: admissions@bathspa.ac.uk.

Expand your practical, theoretical and professional experience with our Master's in Marketing and Brand Management.

  • Understand customer behaviour and needs in an increasingly challenging and competitive business climate.
  • Keep up-to-date with the ever-evolving role of data in business, and learn to make better decisions – faster.
  • Learn how to incorporate increasing expectations of social responsibility into marketing and brand management strategies.

Marketing and Brand Management at Bath Spa University provides you with the skills and practical experience that organisations need in an ever-changing business environment.

It provides opportunities to develop your professional networks, and enables you to experience the aspects of marketing and brand management most relevant to your chosen career path.

During the course, you'll combine bespoke marketing and brand management modules with a choice of more general business and management modules. You'll also get the chance to produce a substantial sector-facing body of work in marketing and brand management. 

What you'll learn

Overview

This course supports the professional development of practitioners who can work in or around marketing and brand management in a range of roles, drawing on a broad mix of skills and experience.

Building on your own experience and background, you'll develop marketing and brand management knowledge and expertise at both theoretical and practical levels.

You'll engage with the current critical debates about marketing and brand management as an academic area of study, and reflect on the present challenges for best practice in the contexts of social, political and economic change.

Course structure

Our MA in Marketing and Brand Management engages with four key issues:

  • Customers’ are increasingly demanding, and at the same time, they're being served by a greater number of competitors; understanding consumer behaviour and the needs of the customer is vital, but increasingly challenging.
  • Businesses have access to – and are bombarded by – a huge volume of data, but struggle to know how to effectively manage and utilise that data effectively.
  • There's a need for ever faster decision making due to a hyper-competitive climate, time pressure, and often competing and conflicting external contexts.
  • Businesses need to negotiate and manage these first three challenges within increasing expectations of social accountability.
Course modules

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.

  • Strategic Brand Management
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Extended Work-Based Placement/Project
  • Dissertation
  • Marketing Communications
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Fashion Marketing
  • Sustainability
  • International Business Management.
How will I be assessed?

You'll be assessed by a variety of methods that may include:

  • Reports on work-based assignments
  • Research project reports
  • Portfolios
  • Reflective learning and work-experience journals
  • Reviews
  • Proposal papers for projects
  • Funding or events
  • Business plans or strategy documents
  • Project progress reports
  • Project evaluations
  • Presentations
  • Essays
  • Exams.
How will I be taught?

We combine academic study with practice-based teaching. You’ll learn through a variety of activities including lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, online activity and discussion, work-based learning and research projects.

Staff on this course offer access to a wide range of academic and practical expertise in marketing and brand management. You’ll benefit from one-to-one tutorials, workshops, peer-support and shared learning.

We work with you to ensure that what you learn on the course translates into effective practice in the workplace, and develops your professional potential. 

To find out more about how we teach and how you'll learn, please read our Learning and Teaching Delivery Statement.

Opportunities

Work experience and industry links

The embedded work-based learning and work-based experience opportunities offered on this course are designed to ensure that you graduate with practical experience and postgraduate-level skills in marketing and brand management. Through your engagement with sector professionals, by the time you graduate, you'll have started to develop your own professional networks.

Careers

This course has been designed to align with the talents and skills required in the current marketing and brand management employment market.

Careers in marketing and brand management are varied and cover all business organisations and across sectors.

Adobe Creative Campus

Develop a wealth of indispensable digital skills that you can take into your future career. One of only three Adobe Creative Campuses in the UK, we provide all Bath Spa students with access to the full Adobe Creative Suite, giving you the tools to communicate creatively, whatever your course or chosen professional field.   

Facilities and resources

Where the subject is taught

The majority of module workshops, seminars and tutorials are held at our Newton Park campus.

Resources

Our library offers a wide range of business materials. There is also a wealth of material available via electronic sources. This online material can be accessed on and off campus, enabling you to work at times that suit you.

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Fees

2024 entry
Student Annual tuition fee
UK full time £8,595
UK part time £4,298*
International full time £15,905

Fee notes

*Fee shown is for part time study over two years, although some courses may be available over longer periods.

Interested in applying?

What we look for in potential students

We’re looking for enthusiastic, intelligent, hard-working individuals who have a thirst for knowledge and a passion for skills. You’ll need to be a self-starter, able to work individually and within teams.

Normally, you will have a good undergraduate degree in business, marketing or a related subject. 

Typical offers

You'll normally have a good honours degree in business, marketing or a related subject. You may be considered without an undergraduate degree, if you can demonstrate considerable relevant experience. You may be asked to attend an interview. See our Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) web page to learn more.

If English is not your first language, you'll need to provide evidence of proficiency in the English language. The Admissions Team assesses applications individually, but for postgraduate courses we're looking for an IELTS score of between 6.0-7.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component (Writing, Listening, Reading and Speaking).

How do I apply?

Ready to apply? Click the 'apply now' button in the centre of this page.

Need more guidance? Head to our how to apply webpages.

Course leader: Nasir Salari
Email: n.salari@bathspa.ac.uk

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