MSc Strategic Marketing
Middlesex University Dubai
Key Information
Campus location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 - 2 year
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
AED 80,700 *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Jan 2025
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Introduction
Today’s customers are more knowledgeable than ever before, demanding a wider variety and better quality in products and services. Organisations are looking to marketing strategists to ensure they understand the needs of their customers, how to evolve and grow their customer base and provide the drive towards innovation that will secure them a place in new and emerging markets.
The programme brings to life the global focus on marketing as a strategic managerial function that drives organisation-wide initiatives in delivering customer value. Developed through consultations with industry experts, scholars and students, the programme is built around three key areas of strategic marketing:
- Strategic Analysis: the ability to understand an organisation’s environmental and competitive landscape and apply critical and analytical thinking thereof;
- Strategic Marketing and Leadership: the ability to bring vision, understand marketing strategy, lead teams and measure marketing performance in a highly global marketplace;
- Implementation: the ability to respond strategically to the changing needs of consumers through the development of a range of traditional and digital, customer-centred strategies.
Why Study MSc Strategic Marketing?
The MSc Strategic Marketing programme aims to prepare you for successful employment by encouraging the development of a range of knowledge and skills that will enable you to work effectively, both collaboratively and individually. It is designed to develop your understanding of Strategic Marketing and its integration into an organisation’s overall corporate strategy.
Course Highlights
- Gain practice skills and in-depth knowledge in the three core subject areas of Strategic Marketing and Leadership, Strategic Analysis and Implementation.
- Students can tailor the programme to their own interests and career aspirations through the selection of optional modules.
- A range of co-curricular activities, guest lectures from industry professionals and a residential programme all enhance in-class learning.
- The course is delivered by prominent research and practice-oriented academics.
Chartered Institute of Marketing
This programme is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the leading professional body for marketers worldwide. Middlesex University has joined forces with CIM to give our students the opportunity to gain CIM professional qualifications by taking advantage of exemptions provided through the Graduate Gateway programme. CIM qualifications are highly sought after by employers, and map alongside our own degrees, ensuring we are equipping our students with the best opportunities for a successful marketing career.
Middlesex University Dubai is also one of the few CIM Accredited Study Centres in Dubai, offering students the opportunity to complete the remaining CIM modules required to earn their CIM qualification.
Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
Your programme is dual accredited by the Chartered Management Institute, the only professional body able to award Chartered Manager status - the ultimate management accolade. Dedicated to promoting the highest standards in Management and Leadership excellence, all students will have CMI Affiliate Membership throughout their study giving them access to a range of benefits. Upon completion of your degree, you will also walk away with a CMI Level 7 Professional Qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.
Teaching
The programme can be studied full time (over one year) or part-time (over two years). The university academic calendar consists of two (2) terms a year. Successful students will progress to the Dissertation after they finish their taught modules. This will be particularly attractive to international students seeking to understand Strategic Marketing in practice, in the UAE or within the region. The programme will develop your employability, practice and professional competencies and embed the theory in practice.
You will gain knowledge and understanding through attendance, participation and engagement with lectures, seminars, independent study, group debate and discussion, and producing theoretical and practical work in response to the assignments’ requirements.
You will also be exposed to guest presentations by industry practitioners in the fields of brand management. Such presentations will build on topics discussed in class and will improve understanding of topics/issues required for summative assessment.
You will also participate in an “off-site trip” where you will have the opportunity to receive presentations from marketing experts.
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Programme Content
This programme will consist of two core, four optional modules and a dissertation. Two core taught modules will be worth 30 credits each and will be taught over the full academic year while the other optional modules will be worth 15 credits and taught over a term, with the final dissertation carrying 60 credits. Taught modules will contain a mix of assessment components, both summative and formative. These might include in-class tests, computer-based assignments, essays, case studies, group presentations and assignments and final examinations.
The course starts by embedding the fundamentals of the subject through core modules covering key areas such as brand management, leadership from a marketing perspective and planning for a global market place and from here students will then select four optional modules to study.
- Marketing Strategy, Leadership and Planning (30 Credits) - Compulsory
- Strategic Brand Management (30 Credits) - Compulsory
- Research Methods and Dissertation (60 Credits) - Compulsory
- Brand Analytics, Methods and Strategies (15 Credits) - Optional
- Digital Marketing (15 Credits) - Optional
- Innovation-Driven Marketing (15 Credits) - Optional
- Product Management Strategies (15 Credits) - Optional
- Consumer Psychology (15 Credits) - Optional
- Strategic Marketing Communications (15 Credits) - Optional
- Customer Analysis and Relationship Marketing (15 Credits) - Optional
- Multichannel Marketing Management (15 Credits) - Optional
- Experiential Marketing and Events (15 Credits) - Optional
Career Opportunities
The programme is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge to pursue successful careers in marketing roles across a wide range of different industry sectors and types of organisation. This MSc is for those who wish to develop their skills and acquire knowledge to build or further their career in private, public or charitable organisations.
Graduates will be equipped to pursue a career in a range of marketing positions such as that of Marketing Consultant, Marketing Executive, Marketing Analyst, Researcher and Brand Executive. For those students intending to further their education, the MSc in Strategic Marketing will equip them with a range of skills required for Doctoral-level study.