Marketing and Design

Are you highly creative? do you want to understand business and marketing as well as the design process? this joint honours degree in both marketing and design offers the chance to study a degree in business with a creative focus. delivered by our design department and marketing departments, this isn’t about graphic design but rather the theory and development of the design process. you’ll develop a solid grounding in design principles and applications. you will learn how to produce design briefs, commission design work and manage marketing for any area, from packaging to online advertising. the lively discussion between marketers and contemporary designers forms an important part of your course. interactive lectures, tutorials and seminars help bring academic principles to life.

Thanks to the high quality of our graduates, starting salaries and employment prospects are above average and most move on to successful careers in design management, advertising, media planning and buying, qualitative and quantitative research, and marketing communications. some of our marketing graduates have moved into high-profile managerial positions in the top uk advertising agencies, including ogilvy & mather, grey advertising, and leo burnett. others work at leading market research companies, such as millward brown and nop. our alumni have also recently chosen to work in marketing functions in industry, for asda, bt, the bbc, disneyland, ici, marks and spencer, boots, barclaycard, renault, ibm, unilever, the body shop, ernst and young and sainsbury's, among others. lancaster university is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. we are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in the lancaster award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability awareness, career development, campus community and social development.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. Lancaster University has partnerships with the following companies: