This international business with marketing top-up course allows student with a Higher National Diploma or Foundation degree in business to study for one year and achieve an honours degree in business with a marketing focus.
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Marketing is at the heart of any international organisation and plays a central role in influencing consumer behaviour. You explore the fundamental values that connect people, brands, and stakeholders, looking at a range of areas such as digital marketing, brand awareness and strategic marketing.
Join a community of learners from over 100 different countries to develop your management knowledge in a cross-cultural context. The emphasis is on you taking control of your own learning, advancing you as a business thinker and decision maker through workshop-based, interactive and developmental activities.
Top five reasons to study international business management top-up with marketing with us:
This one year course builds upon the knowledge you have already gained in your previous studies. You explore more advanced topics within the areas of business, management and marketing. There is a greater emphasis upon critical thinking and your ability to plan and manage your own learning as an individual and as part of a group. Upon completion of this year, you will be able to undertake work independently. You undertake a range of substantial, self-directed projects, as well as a research project.
Contemporary Issues in Business Management
You develop an understanding of the challenges faced by organisations and explores the controversies and dilemmas of contemporary management thinking and practice. You study three key interrelated contemporary issues facing businesses - internationalisation; technological innovation and sustainability.
Marketing Planning Application
Building on prior learning you complete a live project where you develop a strategic marketing plan for national brand Greggs. You explore marketing as a managerial activity in a real-time situation, gaining valuable industry experience and skills.
You develop an insight into the new buyer thought process and how sales is an essential skill that carries over into many industries. You explore the sales personalities required for dealing with buyers and how to implement a dynamic sales process.
Undergraduate Business Project
Leading on from the research methods module, the business research project is intended to develop your capacity to undertake a very individual and independent piece of research, albeit with arms length support from a supervisor.
This is an opportunity for you to demonstrate a systematic approach to research, analysis and evaluation within a structured project framework, including project outcome evaluation and reflection on your personal development.
Undergraduate Business Research Methods Top-up
This module seeks to develop your skills in research methods applicable to business and related areas. It focuses on qualitative and quantitative research methods, and will prepare you for the Undergraduate Business Project module.
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Modules offered may vary.
Modules are taught via lectures, seminars, practical workshops and group work. Teaching staff also adopt a range of web-based technologies to deliver module and programme content, assess, provide feedback and communicate with students.
The programme is assessed via a variety of methods including assignments, examinations, group work, presentations and live practical projects.
Our Disability Services team provide an inclusive and empowering learning environment and have specialist staff to support disabled students access any additional tailored resources needed. If you have a specific learning difficulty, mental health condition, autism, sensory impairment, chronic health condition or any other disability please contact a Disability Services as early as possible.
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Successful completion of a foundation degree or higher national diploma (or equivalent) in a business-related subject. When applying through UCAS, make sure that you indicate your point of entry as Year 3.
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You can gain considerable knowledge from work, volunteering and life. Under recognition of prior learning (RPL) you may be awarded credit for this which can be credited towards the course you want to study.
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We provide an environment that allows you to build on and further develop the ‘extra’ practical employability characteristics that will make you more interesting to employers in the job market once you graduate.
Our staff use their extensive business connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lecture sessions, live projects and site visits. In addition we offer a series of workshops and events that ensure all students are equipped with both degree-level subject knowledge plus the practical skills that employers are looking for in new graduate recruits.
Our award-winning careers service works with regional and national employers to advertise graduate positions, in addition to providing post-graduation support for all Teesside University alumni.
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Fee for UK applicants
£9,250 a year
Fee for international applicants
£13,000 a year
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