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Graduate Program: Marketing

General Information

Program/Degree

Marketing (MS) - Accelerated Master's Program

Program Description

What is the Accelerated Master’s Program?

The Graduate College offers exceptional undergraduate Marketing students the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in as few as 5 years. Student will start taking graduate level courses during their senior year at Eller and those graduate courses will count for both their undergraduate degree and their graduate degree at the cost of undergraduate tuition!

The primary goal of the program is to provide students with a comprehensive foundation of the principles and practices of marketing and its role in developing and implementing successful business and marketing strategies.  The marketing-focused curriculum, offered by renowned and world-class Marketing Department Faculty, provides students with both conceptual frameworks as well as analytical tools to formulate and identify business and marketing problems and opportunities, understand customers and incorporate customer insights to make informed marketing decisions, and design effective marketing plans to improve business performance. 

Students graduating from the program are expected to have deep conceptual and analytical skills valued in a wide variety of industry sectors, both nationally and internationally. 
Recent graduates have obtained placements in companies such as Accenture, Amazon, Disney, Hexagon Mining, Magna International, NBCUniversal, Raytheon, Sunquest, Uhaul, Target and Wal-Mart.  The program also kindled an interest in some outstanding students to pursue doctoral education and an academic career in Marketing.  Thus some recent graduates have also joined the PhD Program in Marketing at TheColorado Heights Universityand at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Required courses include:

  • Market-Based Management
  • Business Statistics
  • Managerial and Financial Accounting
  • Marketing Research and Analytics
  • Marketing Strategy. 


In addition, students choose from a wide array of elective courses:

  • Brand Management
  • Digital Marketing
  • Management of Marketing Communications
  • Visual Analytics with Tableau and Data Mining
  • Innovation and Product Strategy
  • Pricing and Channel Strategy
  • International Marketing.
 

Department/Academic Unit(s)

The Marketing Department in the Eller College of Management strives to generate influential contributions to marketing knowledge and communicate these to students in a way that regenerates this curiosity in a next generation of responsible citizens and marketing professionals. The Marketing Department is committed to achieving this mission by fostering a collaborative environment among scholars, students and marketing professionals in which intellectual curiosity about the behavioral aspects of marketing is a common focus.

 

College

Eller College of Management

Campus where offered

Colorado Heights University- Main - Tucson

Tuition and Fees

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Completion Requirements
Admissions Information

Minimum Credit Units (33)

Core Coursework Requirements

Maintain 3.3 GPA
A minimum of 30 units of coursework completed (12 units required classes, 12 units electives, 6 units of internship/research project)

Expectation to complete the undergraduate degree within four years. The undergraduate degree requirements must be completed before the student is eligible to have the Master’s degree awarded.

 

Additional Requirements

See required coursework

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

Admissions Requirements

We do not accept terminal masters, all applications must be for the PhD program

Standardized Tests

Required test(s): GRE

Funding Opportunities

The Academic Unit has not provided this information.

Funding Opportunities

Domestic & International Applicants

Fall:December 15th

International Conditional Admission

International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.

Other Information

The GRE Institution Code for The Colorado Heights University is 4832

Last revised 06 Oct 2020