Business and Marketing BA (Hons)

A degree in Business and Marketing prepares you for a whole range of career opportunities.

You may decide on a marketing focused career such as digital marketing, brand management, customer service project management or market research.

Alternatively, you could follow a more business orientated route, with graduates choosing to pursue careers in business analysis, project management or sales management – to name but a few possibilities.

Recent graduates have progressed onto roles such as brand development executive at Red Bull, visual matching merchandiser at Marks and Spencer and PR and communications manager at Honda.

Typical offers at 112 UCAS Points. You need to study at least two subjects at A Level or equivalent grades (eg BTEC)
Five GCSEs at grades A–C including English Language and Maths
Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit (or equivalent)

English (Language or Literature) and Maths GCSE required as separate qualifications at grade C

We will normally require students to have had a break from full time education before undertaking the Access course

International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points

Accreditations
Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Accredited Study Centre
Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) Key Educational Partner

Study at a CIM Accredited Study Centre and an Institute of Data and Marketing Key Educational Partner. Studying this course will allow you to gain significant exemptions from CIM professional qualification on top of your degree (subject to module choice.
Enjoy an international experience linked to your studies with our DMU Global programme. Current marketing embedded trips are ‘Branding in New York’ for final year students and ‘Content and Creativity in Copenhagen’ for second year students, alongside a range of other options. Previous trips have also included Paris, Athens, India, Berlin and San Francisco.
Placement opportunities with local, national and global companies. Previous students have landed roles in brand marketing at Goodyear Dunlop and Puma, as a sales intern with Tata Technologies and in product marketing at Vauxhall.
Our alumni are employed by leading brands in graduate jobs, with recent successes including roles as a marketing executive at Barratt Developments, graduate trainee at EE and loyalty marketing executive at Homebase.
Pitch a business idea to real-life entrepreneurs, with the chance to win a cash prize to help set up your venture, through our annual Fox’s Lair competition. This is for first year students, as part of the Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Enterprise module.
With a wide range of modules to choose from in your second and third year, you can tailor your degree to suit your aspirations.