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BA (Hons) International Marketing (Top-up) at Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University, United Kingdom

Programme overview

Want to top up your marketing degree in Birmingham? Our International Marketing Top-Up course gives you the chance to broaden your knowledge of marketing within the global business environment. This degree gives you the practice-based skills needed to succeed in the ever-changing discipline of marketing.

Faculty: Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences  |  Department: Business and Management  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You’ll be put into a range of exciting and innovative scenarios, strengthening your expertise and learning from different cultures and experiences. During this top-up year, you will take a range of advanced modules that look at current marketing methods and contemporary business issues, such as International Business, Marketing Strategy and Planning and Sustainable Marketing. Hands-on learning will go alongside more conventional teaching methods like lectures and seminars. Modules include Marketing Strategy and Leadership, One Planet Business, Digital Analytics for Marketing, Contemporary Advertising, Cross Cultural Consumer Behaviour, International Business.

Career pathways

This course allows you to tailor your study around the job role and the career you want. By teaching you to apply what you learn to real business scenarios, you can walk into employment, having already dealt with many situations you find in the working world.

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Entry requirements

Accepted qualifications include: ABE Advanced Diploma: At least a grade B in two modules and the qualification must be in a relevant subject area. Diploma in Higher Education (DipHE): Pass with 120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5, in a related pathway. Acceptance will be Subject to satisfactory comparability of modular content at level 4 and 5. A transcript will be required. Foundation degree (Level 5): Pass with 120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5, in a related pathway. A minimum of 60% overall must be achieved. Acceptance will be subject to satisfactory comparability of modular content at level 4 and 5. A transcript will be required. Higher National Diploma (HND): Pass with 120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5, in a related pathway. A minimum of a Merit profile overall. Acceptance will be subject to satisfactory comparability of modular content at level 4 and 5. A transcript will be required. Applications are considered on an individual basis. EU/international applicants: You will need a good pass in a related discipline, at a level equivalent to UK Level 5, with the equivalent of 240 UK credits (120 ECTS credits).

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,050 a year (2027/28). full-time, 1 year; annual tuition for the first year of study Source

International applicants: GBP 19,220 a year (2027/28). full-time, 1 year; annual tuition for the first year of study Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time

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