Marketing (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)
University of the West of England
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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SEP-25

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4 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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5 Years

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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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In an ever-evolving global environment, marketing is vital for organisations to communicate about their brand values, products, and/or services. It offers creative and exciting career opportunities across multiple sectors. BA(Hons) Marketing course is flexible and practice-focused, preparing you for varied marketing roles. You’ll learn about communication, understanding consumers, and managing marketing projects to meet targets. You can study specialist modules in contemporary marketing, brand ...Read more

In an ever-evolving global environment, marketing is vital for organisations to communicate about their brand values, products, and/or services. It offers creative and exciting career opportunities across multiple sectors. BA(Hons) Marketing course is flexible and practice-focused, preparing you for varied marketing roles. You’ll learn about communication, understanding consumers, and managing marketing projects to meet targets. You can study specialist modules in contemporary marketing, brand creation, market research, and responding to client briefs . Also, fieldwork, pitches, and industry guest lectures enrich your learning and provide networking opportunities.You’ll develop a diverse skillset, including communication, organisational and digital marketing skills, critical thinking, ethical values, plus an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll graduate ready to embrace emerging technologies and AI and understand the importance of, and how to play your part in, ethical and sustainable business practices.We encourage you to take a sandwich placement after your second year, either in the UK or abroad, as this is a valuable opportunity to gain real-world experience to enhance your employability. Our students have secured placement roles with companies including Aon, Airbus, British Airways, and Disney, to name just a few. Previous placement roles have included working as a marketing assistant, marketing executive, account executive, plus more across various sectors.

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WUSCA ranking:
WUSCA student ranking
These are the 2024 rankings, based on ratings given by past and current students.
81/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
50th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
75th
Marketing
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 89 = 11% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
11%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
90%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Marketing graduate salary at this uni
£22,000
UK Marketing graduate salary
£21,000
What students say
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Alejandra
31 Jan 25

UWE is a wonderful university. The professors are really helpful and understanding of different circumstances that students can go through. The support is decent when overcoming..Read more

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Oban
27 Nov 24

Accommodation is poor, I have had a toilet out of order for 1 month and no one has come to fix it even after they have been told about many..Read more

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A level

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UCAS Tariff:

48 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

PPP Grades / Points required

No specific subjects required. Points from General Studies and AS-Level subjects (not taken onto full A-Level) can be included towards overall tariff. You must have a minimum of one A-Level.

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No specific subjects required.

Popular A-level subjects

Marketing

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Business Studies
51%
Psychology
20%
Media Studies
18%
English Literature
16%
History
16%
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Latest reviews

Latest Marketing reviews

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Alejandra
31 Jan 25
Marketing BA (Hons)
UWE is a wonderful university. The professors are really helpful and understanding of different circumstances that students can go through. The support is decent when overcoming...
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Oban
27 Nov 24
Business Management with Marketing (Top Up) BA (Hons)
Accommodation is poor, I have had a toilet out of order for 1 month and no one has come to fix it even after they have been told about many...
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University of the West of England
University of the West of England , Bristol

UWE Bristol is an ambitious, progressive university based in one of the UK’s most vibrant and creative cities....

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