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  • Qualification

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

  • Location

    Main Site

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary


This is a Connected Degree

Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.


Overview

Develop the professional skills you need to become a modern digital marketer on this CIM and IDM accredited BA (Hons) Digital Marketing degree. You’ll learn to create digital marketing strategies for any organisation, and stand out to employers with a varied portfolio of marketing projects and live client work after you graduate. Explore the creative and analytical aspects of digital marketing, combine hands-on client experience with detailed marketing theory, and use industry tools such as the Adobe suite, Google Analytics, Hubspot and social media dashboards throughout the course.You’ll learn to communicate with customers through digital platforms, and how to measure the performance of your communications with data and analytics. After your first year, you’ll choose specialist topics to focus on such as advertising or product development. If you decide to complete an industrial placement year, you’ll graduate with a year of workplace experience as well as your degree knowledge. This paid placement takes place after your second or third year of study, and you’ll benefit from support from the University Careers and Employability service as well as our Placement Club. You’ll hear from industry experts and guest speakers throughout the course, and graduate ready to make an impact in the industry.


Course highlights

- Gain industry certifications in software packages and specific skills like SEO, Google Ads and social media platforms as part of your degree- Make videos and podcasts, write social posts, create personas, visualise data and perfect search marketing as you study the full range of digital marketing tools- Learn from teaching staff who have worked in the industry and are actively researching the rapidly changing world of digital marketing- Work with real clients on live briefs as part of your assessments and in our marketing consultancy module- Apply your learning and increase your employability with a paid placement year- Benefit from expert industry speakers, from companies such as O2, TK Maxx and Gartner


Careers and opportunities

You'll graduate from this course with projects and certificates to demonstrate your competence with tools and you'll have real-world experience to talk about in interviews. That experience might be through a work placement, or through our marketing consultancy project module.You can be confident that, as industry tools evolve over the lifetime of your degree, we'll ensure your skills are up-to-date and that you have strong foundations of marketing theory to build on.Previous graduates of this course have got jobs such as:- digital engagement manager- campaign assistant- marketing assistant- paid social senior account executive- commercial marketing executive- digital marketerGraduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:- Awin Global Marketing- Merlin Entertainment- IBM- Cineworld- Virgin Active- ZooplaYou could also choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level, or set up your own business with help and support from the University.Whatever career path you choose our Careers and Employability service will help you. You'll have their support for 5 years after you graduate.

Application deadline

29 January

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

£ 17,200per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

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University information

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth

  • University League Table

    49th

  • Campus address

    University of Portsmouth, University House, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP, England

Over 5,700 of the university's 24,000 students come from 150 countries around the world.
The University of Portsmouth Global team is dedicated to supporting international students from enquiry, through application and arrival, to graduation.
Facilities at the award-winning Ravelin sports centre include an 8-lane swimming pool, 175-station gym, climbing wall and ski simulator.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    43rd out of 87 11

  • Entry standards

    / Max 204
    125 61%

    43rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    83.0 83%

    20th

    11
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.00 75%

    54th

    23

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