Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing
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Overview
As a marketing major at WPU, you will gain a strong foundation in what it takes to create, manage and enhance brands to maximize their value to consumers.
Both creative and analytical types can find a home in a marketing career, which encompasses the entire range of activities that match goods, services and intangibles with consumer needs and desires — both in digital marketing and traditional print, TV and radio marketing. WPU’s Marketing program provides a solid foundation for marketing students, covering a range of disciplines such as advertising, public relations, media planning, sales strategy and sales management, brand management, retailing, search engine optimization and more. Communication and computer skills are emphasized, as is problem-solving and decision making, and working collaboratively is an important aspect of the program. Professionals themselves, WPU faculty are active in their fields and well-connected, so opportunities abound to apply your knowledge through projects and internships. Given the breadth of the field and its many applications across nonprofit, for-profit and public sectors, Marketing degree majors enjoy a wide range of career possibilities.
The U.S. Office of Business and Labor Statistics (BLS) reports the following median salaries for jobs in this field:
- Sales Manager: $114K
- Market Research Analyst: $62K
- Advertising Manager: $96K
- Marketing Manager: $128K
- Junior Product Manager: $65K
Marketing majors learn how to take data and craft messages in a fun, creative, and digestible manner through a variety of mediums -
Courses
The coursework listed below is for the Academic Catalog and is subject to change. Please reference the Academic Catalog for further information and course descriptions. If you are a current student, please reference the catalog in which you come under.
Bachelor of Science in Marketing
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Faculty
Associate Professor of Business Administration; Program Director of Human Resources Management
Department Chair of Psychology and Business; Professor of Psychology -
Careers
Marketers enjoy a lot of flexibility in their careers. Almost every business, from national healthcare companies to the local dry cleaner, needs people with marketing skills and marketing strategy insight. WPU marketing graduates are prepared to enter the workforce immediately, having already gained real-world experience through internships and other opportunities that are a regular part of WPU’s Marketing degree program. They are also prepared to go on to earn a master’s degree.
Marketing graduates can choose to work for a marketing agency and serve a wide variety of clients or in a specific company’s marketing department, where marketing decisions and implementation will serve a single business or business conglomerate. Marketers can also find success working for themselves in a freelance capacity. The average salary for a freelance digital marketer in the United States is $68,970.
Marketing majors, like Business Administration and other business-related majors, learn solid sales and marketing principles to help businesses, organizations, nonprofits, government institutions, even professional sports teams more effectively sell their products and services and expand market share.
The outlook for marketing jobs in the United States is very positive. According to BLS data, marketers, promoters and advertisers can expect 6% growth through 2029, which is higher than the average for all occupations.
