Overview

To gain entry into or grow in this field, you need in-demand skills you can immediately put into practice. Franklin University’s transfer-friendly Marketing bachelor's degree program equips you with a highly desirable skill set in these core areas: marketing strategy, market research, strategy and analysis, promotion, and digital advertising.

Through your Marketing courses, you'll gain confidence in your abilities through a hands-on approach to all aspects of marketing, from developing strategic plans to executing tactics. Our highly relevant curriculum will expose you to current trends in social media, analytics, and consumer behavior, preparing you to add value to variety of industries and organizations.

With application-oriented Marketing curriculum and project-based assignments, you’ll get practical experience in how the marketing function fits within other business disciplines. From case studies to your capstone project, you’ll be doing marketing work in a simulated business environment.

The capstone project prepares you to work cross functionally by teaming you up with students from other majors, including Human Resources Management and  Financial Management. Together, you’ll define a corporate strategy with you developing the marketing plan and ensuring integration and alignment with the overall business strategy.

Marketing Career Opportunities

• Account Executive

Account Executives cultivate and maintain profitable and satisfying client relationships, seek out new business opportunities, and sell a company’s products and services.

• Digital Marketing Analyst

Digital Marketing Analysts assess web analytics against business objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs), report findings, and make strategic optimization recommendations.

• Digital Media Director

Digital Media Directors lead the activities of online marketing programs, including branding, direct response, e-commerce, and customer engagement and retention strategies.