Meet Your Major: Marketing

Building brands. Identifying target markets. Attracting, retaining and growing a customer base.

In this program of study, you’ll examine the key marketing practices that power business growth. By exploring important issues in advertising and promotion, market research, consumer behavior, and product development, you’ll learn what it takes to incite action — from driving sales results to spurring social change.

What You’ll Learn

With a marketing concentration, you will:

• Explore the four P’s of marketing: product, price, promotion and place
• Become well-versed in social-media and digital-marketing techniques and strategies.
• Learn to apply marketing theories and tactics to real-world business challenges.
• Use analytics — from customer-behavior research to sales statistics — to inform business decisions.
• Evaluate the channels and messages that are most likely to drive action and deliver measurable results.

Hands-on Learning

Participate in solving companies’ marketing-related challenges, via internships at industry-leading firms or by working with local businesses in our market research course. You’ll also get to apply your knowledge by implementing marketing strategies in our Marketing Seminar capstone project. Bonus? Join the Merrimack College student chapter of the American Marketing Association to network with industry professionals at on- and off-campus events, and deepen your marketing and advertising know-how (and résumé!).

Career Options

You’ll have access to a range of creative careers, from product development to global marketing to advertising to public relations. Career paths may include jobs in the following fields:

• Advertising (including digital and event marketing)
• Brand management
• International and global marketing
• Marketing models and systems analysis
• Marketing research (including consumer behavior and research)
• New-product planning
• Sales management and promotions
• Social media and digital marketing
• Public relations and publicity

What You’ll Take

All business administration majors must satisfy the college’s general education requirements and the following business requirements*:

BUS 1100	Introduction to Business
BUS 2203	Accounting for Business
BUS 2205	Principles of Marketing
BUS 2210	Management Information Systems
BUS 2213	Business Statistics
BUS 2215	Managerial Finance
BUS 2220	Operations Management
BUS 4402W	Strategic Analysis and Decision-Making

* ECO1201 and MTH1003 or MTH1115 are pre-requisite courses that must be completed by all business administration majors.

In addition to the core courses in business administration, listed above, marketing majors must also complete the following five courses:

Required: Complete All Three

MKT 3300	Marketing Strategy
MKT 4420	Marketing Research
MKT 4980	Marketing Seminar

Electives: Choose Two

MKT 3303	Advertising and Promotion
MKT 3309	Sales Management and Business Marketing
MKT 3315	Entrepreneurship
MKT 3318	Retail Management
MKT 3320	Global Marketing
MKT 3355	Consumer Behavior
MKT 4900	Special Topics in Marketing
SPM 3005	Sport Marketing