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Management: Marketing
Master's Concentration

These program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.


Program Highlights
  • Market products: Develop strategies to successfully market products or services to individuals or organizations.
  • Maximize engagement: Create an optimal communications strategy to maximize engagement with a product or brand.
  • Use metrics: Measure the effectiveness of a marketing program and make recommendations for improvement.
  • Go digital: Develop digital strategies combined with direct marketing methods to promote customer relationships.
  • Apply principles: Apply relevant legal and ethical principles to prevent and resolve dilemmas in marketing situations.
  • Develop global strategy: Devise appropriate marketing strategies in the context of competitive global environments.
  • Analyze brand equity: Analyze the role of brand equity to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
Required Courses

This program requires a total of 36 credits.

Initial Requirement

  • (0 Credits, UCSP 615)

This course must be taken within the first 6 credits of study (if required). The UCSP 615 requirement may be waived if you previously earned a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution. For more information, contact your academic advisor.

Core Courses

  • (6 Credits, MGMT 630)
  • (3 Credits, MGMT 640)
  • (3 Credits, MGMT 650)

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  • (3 Credits, MRKT 600)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 602)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 603)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 604)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 605)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 608)

Capstone Course

  • (3 Credits, MRKT 670)
Career Preparation

This program is designed to help you prepare for an important role as a marketing professional. Potential job titles include marketing manager, digital marketing manager, market research analyst, and more. The skills you learn in this program may be applicable in a number of professional contexts, including work in the public sector, private sector, and non-profit sector. ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ courses are taught by experienced faculty members, and address skills and competencies that today’s employers seek.

Experience Recommended for Success in the Program

We recommend a recent background in finance or accounting, as well as statistics. Strong writing skills are also encouraged.

Total Program Credits
36
Transfer Credits
Up to 12
Format
  • All courses available online
Tuition Per Credit
  • $534 per credit (in-state)
  • $659 per credit (out-of-state)
  • $336 per credit (military)
  • Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements

This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.

Military-Specific Details

This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.

State-Specific Details

This program does not have state-specific restrictions.

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Communication Studies
Bachelor of Arts

These program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.


Program Highlights
  • Analyze information critically: Apply critical reasoning skills to finding, evaluating, interpreting, using, and delivering information.
  • Apply communication principles: Apply ethical communication principles and practices to finding, evaluating, interpreting, creating, and delivering messages.
  • Write content: Create written messages tailored to specific audiences, purposes, and contexts.
  • Develop presentations: Create oral and multimedia presentations tailored to specific audiences, purposes, and contexts.
  • Analyze messages: Access, analyze, evaluate, design, create, and act on messages in a variety of media contexts.
  • Demonstrate listening techniques: Demonstrate techniques for mindful hearing, attending, understanding, responding, and remembering in a variety of contexts.
  • Utilize small-group communication: Leverage the principles of small-group communication to complete tasks.
  • Apply frameworks: Apply organizational communication frameworks to the management of upward, downward, and horizontal oral, visual, and written communication in workplace contexts.
Required Courses
  • (3 Credits, SPCH 100) or any SPCH course
  • (3 Credits, COMM 207) or any COMM course
  • (3 Credits, JOUR 201)
  • (3 Credits, COMM 300)
  • (3 Credits, COMM 302)
  • (3 Credits, SPCH 324)
  • (3 Credits, JOUR 330) or any upper-level JOUR course
  • (3 Credits, COMM 400) or any upper-level COMM course
  • (3 Credits, SPCH 470) or any upper-level SPCH course
  • (3 Credits, COMM 390) or any upper-level COMM course
  • (3 Credits, COMM 495)
Career Preparation

This program is designed to help prepare you for careers in a number of professional contexts, including in mass media, journalism, public relations, business, and corporate communication. The skills that you’ll learn in this program may be transferrable to multiple industries and potential job titles that include public affairs specialist, copy editor, SEO analyst, technical writer, and creative director.

Experience Recommended for Success in the Program

No previous experience is needed.

Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
  • All courses available online
  • Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
  • $324 per credit (in-state)
  • $499 per credit (out-of-state)
  • $250 per credit (military)
  • Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements

This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.

Military-Specific Details

This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.

State-Specific Details

This program does not have state-specific restrictions.

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Marketing
Bachelor of Science

These program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.


Program Highlights
  • Apply marketing strategy: Apply strategic marketing skills, such as scenario planning, market intelligence, customer profiles, and digital planning, to market products or services.
  • Develop insights: Develop marketing insights with data derived from internal and external sources.
  • Design comm plans: Design effective integrated marketing communication plans using traditional, digital, and social media channels.
  • Develop campaigns: Develop multichannel campaigns for nonprofit organizations through fundraising, recruiting volunteers, and promoting alliances using traditional and digital marketing channels.
  • Focus on customers: Create consumer-driven marketing strategies for a consistent consumer experience across multiple marketing channels.
  • Cultivate relationships: Develop successful customer relationships and enhance customer loyalty using appropriate marketing technologies.
Required Courses
  • (3 Credits, BMGT 110)
  • (3 Credits, BMGT 330)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 310)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 354)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 394)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 410)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 412)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 458)
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 311) or any upper-level MRKT course
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 314) or any upper-level MRKT course
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 454) or any upper-level MRKT course
  • (3 Credits, MRKT 495)
Career Preparation

UMGC's marketing degree is designed for mid-level professionals looking to take the next step in their career paths. Graduates of this program may be able to pursue careers as marketing product managers, marketing directors, digital marketing managers, and more. 

Experience Recommended for Success in the Program

No previous experience is needed.

Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
90
Format
  • All courses available online
  • Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
  • $324 per credit (in-state)
  • $499 per credit (out-of-state)
  • $250 per credit (military)
  • Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements

This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.

Military-Specific Details

This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.

State-Specific Details

This program does not have state-specific restrictions.

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