Digital Marketing Management MSc

Postgraduate

In Stoke-On-Trent

£ 9,000 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Stoke-on-trent

  • Duration

    3 Years

The aim of the MSc Digital Marketing Management is to enable you to deal with real world issues in an intellectual and challenging manner in this dynamic area of professional and academic marketing. It will provide you with both technical and critical evaluation skills, and the ability to apply contemporary techniques for decision making in complex situations relevant to Digital Marketing Management. It will provide you with up-to-date knowledge of this fast-changing field, and help to develop analytical and problem–solving skills required for future work. The MSc Digital Marketing Management will provide a solid basis for further study (i.e. doctoral level) or a career in the broad Digital Marketing Management area.
The marketing profession has undergone a significant change in the knowledge and skill base required to meet the needs of a constantly evolving digital environment. According to the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) (2015) "Data is the currency of success. It is not enough for marketers to know that analytics and data science can help – they need to know how to use them to make good choices. They must take a scientific approach." This postgraduate course has been designed to offer marketing graduates the opportunity to keep abreast of changes in the Digital Marketing Management environment.
The flexible nature of the course allows students the opportunity to explore specific aspects of the digital marketing debate ranging from new and emerging themes relating to branding, content curation and analytics, thereby offering a clearly differentiated positioning and providing a significant update on the more traditional marketing provision. The integration of Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) and CIM influences helps us to shape curricula that have a strong professional and practical ethos, focusing on employability and continuing professional development in the field of Digital Marketing Management. The inclusion of a...

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Location

Start date

Stoke-On-Trent (Staffordshire)
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College Road, ST4 2DE

Start date

On request

About this course

You will normally be expected to have:
A 2:2 or above Honours degree (or equivalent) in marketing; a 2:1 or above Honours degree in business with evidence of successful attainment of marketing modules; a satisfactory English language skills qualification is required for international candidates where English is not their first language.
An overall assessment of an applicant's educational background, experience and potential to benefit from the scheme will be made when considering the suitability of a candidate for our Masters programmes.
For non-standard applications - you may be...

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Subjects

  • Marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Management
  • Project
  • Perspective

Course programme



Please note part-time study will require you to attend face to face classes two evenings per week, or as advised by your module tutor, over two semesters commencing in September each year. Semesters will be 12 weeks' duration. The final year of study (year 3) requires attendance for 6 weeks only in the first semester. Following this you will be working on your work based project/dissertation with meeting arranged with your supervisor.
Year 1
Scanning the Digital Environment
This module will introduce you to the rapidly changing business environment but from a digital marketing perspective.
Strategic Marketing Communications and Media Management
Marketing communications are covered in this module from a strategic perspective and it addresses how digital media management can be integrated into your campaigns.
Digital Consumer Behaviour and Experience
Consumer behaviour is a pivotal area of digital marketing. As consumers change and adapt their buying power and adopt different behaviour patterns, understanding and integrating these developments is critical to success.
Content Curation and Development
Content is now a pivotal element of digital marketing. Across a range of different vehicles, this module addresses a strategic perspective to the process.
Year 2
Management Control and Internal Audit
The quantitative features of this course diversify to include financial and management controls, ensuring that elements such as return on investment (ROI) are addressed to ensure that strategies address contribution.
Co-creation with Brand Communities
Consumers are no longer passive receivers of brand management campaigns. Instead brands now will consider consumers as co-creators of brand values, operating in tribes within the digital marketing environment. Understanding the significance of these developments is pivotal for marketing managers.
Global Strategic Digital Marketing Management
This pivotal module incorporates and blends the learning from other modules to enable you to produce a full in-depth strategic digital marketing plan.
Year 3
Work Based Project Preparation OR Business Management Research
In the first 6 weeks you will prepare a module based on project management skills in preparation for your work based project.
Alternatively you can complete a research module to prepare you for a more traditional dissertation.
Masters Work Based Project OR Dissertation
The work based project, which is usually based within your company, gives you the opportunity to work on a potentially live project to produce a report for an organisation on a meaningful digital marketing project.
Alternatively you can work on a traditional dissertation based on a topic in the digital marketing management area of research.

Additional information

The MSc overall is 180 credits, with the intermediate PgCert and PgDip awards being 60 credits each. Find out about the Postgraduate Loan Scheme Business/organisation-focused including extensive organisation case studies and working examples. A fostering of your conceptual understanding of the issues within the Digital Marketing Management field so you are able to critically evaluate relevant academic literature. An academic ethos with the focus on you developing the ability to evaluate, appraise and critique new ideas, models and concepts, and to identify any biases and assumptions inherent in these. An opportunity to develop the ability to critically evaluate the impact of Digital Marketing Management theory and practice in resolving major challenges and the importance of relevant academic research to the area. A rigorous programme of study that develops expertise through independent investigation and creative critical thinking, preparing you to undertake further research in Digital Marketing Management.

Digital Marketing Management MSc

£ 9,000 + VAT