International Marketing MBA

Postgraduate

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Develop a range of multidisciplinary marketing skills as well as your ability to think and work strategically, to prepare for a career in international marketing and business.

Year of entry

2024-25 2025-26

Location

Coventry University London (City of London)

Study mode

Full-time

Duration

1 year full-time

Course code

LONT081

Start date

January 2025
May 2025

How to apply

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Course overview

This course will aim to equip you with theories and concepts of strategy, leadership, finance, along with specialised knowledge in marketing management, creativity and brand communications and digital marketing.

Sharpen your knowledge and skills by applying your learning into a wide range of contexts through simulated learning, experiential activities and interdisciplinary business-related projects.
Prepare for managing core marketing elements, by gaining exposure to the latest marketing practices across a selection of sectors within an international context.
Explore the nature and implications of rapid changes in marketing and business.

Global ready

An international outlook, with global opportunities

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Teaching excellence

Taught by lecturers who are experts in their field

Employability

Career ready graduates, with the skills to succeed

Why you should study this course

CMI accreditation
Study a course with professional accreditation¹ from one of the UK’s leading professional management bodies - the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Take the opportunity to obtain the CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice subject to the successful completion of specific modules (please see module section for further information).
Contemporary course content
This MBA course aims to cover the latest trends and developments in a marketing and management practice, encouraging you to ask questions and suggest solutions. The course aims to expand your ability to find the data and insights you’ll need to make well-informed decisions.
Industry insight
You may have the chance to hear marketing practitioners share their inspirational stories and attend tailored talks by experts from academia. Please note that staff are subject to change.
Real-world experience
Your lecturers strive to minimise the use of conventional teaching methods, preferring exposure to the world of work both within and beyond the classroom². The final semester project provides you with opportunities for business plans, internships and consulting projects².
Prepare for your future
You’ll have opportunities to mix with employers and to build your CV². Should you wish to start your own business, we offer business start-up advice and support through our Enterprise Hub. MBA students also have the opportunity to take part in our embedded business simulations, developed in collaboration with corporate learning and development specialists to help you develop key industry competencies.

Accreditation and professional recognition

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

The following modules are mapped to the requirements of the CMI:

7002MFH Marketing in a Global Age
7005MHR Leadership - Towards Mastery of Leading Change & Inclusivity
7002MHR Leadership - Towards Mastery of Leading Self & Global Cultures
7003MHR Entrepreneurship & Innovation
7009MHR Global Strategic Management
7025 AFE Managerial Finance

Upon successful completion of all these modules (achieving a pass grade), you will be eligible for the CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice subject to successful registration and CMI moderation. Coventry University’s accreditation with CMI is ongoing for the relevant modules and is regularly reviewed and monitored by the CMI through its quality systems.

My favourite thing about Coventry University London was experiential learning and mixed culture. People from different parts of the world came together with a common goal in their mind and thriving to achieving the same.
Mohit Agarwal, MBA International Marketing graduate, quoted in 2020

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What you'll study

The broad curriculum of this course means you’ll study nine mandatory modules plus one choice of three flexible options for your final term project. Across all mandatory modules and several of the major-project options, the learning approach is focused on teamwork, business simulations and real-world projects, all of which are underpinned by excellent academic teaching and your own personal study.

All modules are mandatory:

Modules

Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Self and Global Cultures - 15 credits

This module is about leadership as a living practice through the mastery of strategic and ethical leadership. You will examine leadership from theory to practice, as a strategic mechanism for change in a globally complex world and connect these to your own leadership practice.

Compulsory

Global Strategic Management - 15 credits

The aim of this module is to support you in developing the required competence that will enable you to develop viable and sustainable strategies to support organisations in achieving their set goals, actualise their vision and fulfil their mission amid current and future global challenges.

Compulsory

Managerial Finance - 15 credits

The overall aim of this module is to explore key accounting and finance practices and the associated decision-making tools within organisations. It covers accounting and finance tools within a variety of business environments, and consider appropriate management techniques to help identify strategic options.

Compulsory

Marketing in A Global Age – 15 credits

This module aims to deepen your understanding of global marketing and its role within business and help you learn how to meet the needs of a range of stakeholders. After successfully completing this module, students will be able to: track and respond to complex and cross-cultural macro and micro- environments; apply marketing strategies and concepts to multinational business environments; assess the effectiveness of marketing and discuss new opportunities and challenges (e.g. globalisation, digitalisation, and social responsibility) in affecting marketing management.

Compulsory

Leadership: Towards Mastery of Leading Change and Inclusivity - 15 credits

Leadership is vital for success in any professional area; the ability to engage co-workers or employees and communicate your ideas effectively to ensure cooperation is likely to help you succeed professionally. The module gives you the opportunity to learn how to influence, persuade and lead groups of people, as well as understanding the behavioural dynamics of how groups work together, and what makes people do what they do.

Compulsory

Entrepreneurship and Innovation - 15 credits

Creativity and Brand Communications - 15 credits

Digital Marketing - 15 credits

This module aims to provide you with the knowledge of contemporary digital marketing theories and concepts from a strategic point of view that will enable you to engage better with the digital generation. This module will equip you with relevant tools and techniques to take digital marketing related decisions.

Optional

Research Methods - 0 credits

The aims of the module are to equip participants with the skills to be able to sensitively and critically design, carry out, report, read, and evaluate the quality of qualitative and quantitative research projects. Consequently, to provide students with an understanding of the major philosophical issues within business and management research and enable students to identify the nature and characteristics of different research approaches. Over the course, students will learn to formulate good research questions, using different methods of data collection and data analysis, and critically evaluate the research.

Compulsory

Choose one from the following final semester modules::

Internship and Consulting Project² - 60 credits
The internship consulting project offers you a unique opportunity for practical, meaningful and hands-on work experience, to learn how to work collaboratively with others and obtain a better perspective of careers within the field of your interest. This module aims to develop work-related knowledge, skills and capabilities necessary to pursue further career-related opportunities related to your subject area.
Dissertation - 60 credits
Your dissertation builds on 'Research Methods' and gives you the opportunity to enact the project designed and approved by your tutor. A high standard of achievement will be expected and the dissertation should draw on the intellectual and analytical skills and knowledge developed during the course. The module also provides an opportunity for you to develop your interests in a particular area and to demonstrate an ability to undertake individual research. The topic selected will need to be appropriate to the course of study, logistically feasible, adequately resourced and will adequately address ethics, safety and any required permissions.
Entrepreneurship Business Plan - 60 credits
This module aims to help you learn how to create a business plan. By the time you start this module you should have learnt the fundamental elements of entrepreneurship that are essential for the successful passing of this module. At the end of this module, you will look to write a detailed business plan that provides a strategic, operational and financial plan for your own business idea.

Compulsory

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.

How you'll learn

We currently maintain strong relationships with professional associations and employers, especially when it comes to curriculum design, so what we aim to teach you is a true reflection of what’s current in industry and the skills that employers are looking for.

Teaching methods include: learning journey, webinars, workshops, debates, case studies, consultancy projects, simulations, business plans, and online collaborations².
Our action-learning approach focuses on group work, business simulations and real-world activities such as live projects with clients in the private, public and third sectors².
Take part in extra-curricular activities such as our Student Enterprise Business Society, student mentoring programmes and volunteering opportunities to develop your personal and professional skills. You could also take part in our High Flyers programme (subject to availability), to help you develop the personal and professional skills necessary to thrive in a rapidly changing world, through a suite of extracurricular, non-course specific workshops.

Teaching contact hours

The number of full-time contact hours may vary from semester to semester; however, on average, it is likely to be around 12 contact hours per week. They may be a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.

Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 24 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.

As an innovative and enterprising institution, the university may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.

Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.

Assessment

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods may include:

Group work
Presentations
Projects
Individual report
Pitch
Blog
Case Study
Simulated learning

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.

International experience opportunities

This course's globalised approach to the curriculum, places your learning in the context of international challenges, opportunities and regulatory frameworks. It should prepare you for working globally, whether overseas, or for a multi-national, or for a firm which trades internationally. You will have the opportunity for an international field trip. You could also arrange to do either a consultancy project or an internship² (as part of your final major project) overseas. You may benefit from studying alongside a typically international cohort of students, learning from the perspectives they bring while developing your own ability to work cross-culturally.

I will forever cherish the classes because even when we were away from the classrooms, group activities and group discussions never ceased. Even using online platforms, lecturers encouraged a good environment for deliberation and debates - offers an unparalleled learning experience.
Swatikrishna Ravi, MBA International Marketing graduate, quoted in 2020

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Entry requirements

Typical offer for 2024/25 entry.

An honours undergraduate degree (minimum 2:2) in a relevant academic discipline (e.g. Marketing, Business and Management).

Applicants with a degree in another discipline may be admitted after consideration on a case-by-case basis. Applications from candidates with relevant experience or professional qualifications are encouraged to apply and will be considered on an individual basis.

Careful monitoring of applications to ensure that applicants are suited to the course takes place. Where necessary, applicants are interviewed, especially those that do not appear to meet standard admissions criteria. Where deemed appropriate, a written exercise may be administered to establish suitability.

We recognise a breadth of qualifications, speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.

Select your region to find detailed information about entry requirements:

You can view our full list of country specific entry requirements on our Entry requirements page.

If you do not have the typical entry requirements, you may want to consider studying this course with the International Pathways Programme. Upon successful completion our International Pre-Master's - Business will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to progress onto this postgraduate degree.

Alternatively, visit our International hub for further advice and guidance on finding in-country agents and representatives, joining our in-country events and how to apply.

Typical entry requirements

An honours undergraduate degree (minimum 2:2) in a relevant academic discipline (e.g. Marketing, Business and Management).

English language requirements

IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.
If you don't meet the English language requirements, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.
For more information on our approved English language tests visit our English language requirements page.

Fees and funding

2024/25 tuition fees.

Student	Full-time	Part-time
UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man	£20,350	Not available
EU	£20,350 per year with EU Support Bursary £22,550 per year without EU Support Bursary	Not available
International	£22,550	Not available

If you choose to do a work placement², you should consider travel and living costs to cover this. There is also a tuition fee³ of £1,250 that will cover your academic support throughout your placement year.

For advice and guidance on tuition fees³ and student loans visit our Fees and Finance page.

We offer a range of international scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our international scholarships page.

The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:

Additional overseas ﬁeld trips or visits: £400+ per trip.
Any costs associated with securing, attending or completing a placement (whether in the UK or abroad).

*Irish student fees

The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.

**EU Support Bursary

Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.

How do you know if you need to pay UK or international tuition fees?

We carry out an initial fee status assessment based on the information you provide in your application. Your fee status determines your tuition fees, and what financial support and scholarships may be available to you. The rules about who pays UK (home) or international (overseas) fees for higher education courses in England are set by the Department for Education. The regulations identify all the different categories of student who can insist on paying the home rate. The regulations can be difficult to understand, so the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) has provided fee status guidance to help you identify whether you are eligible to pay the home or overseas rate.

If you meet all the criteria required by any one category, including any residence requirements, your institution must charge you the home rate. You only need to find one category that you fit into.

Facilities

You will have access to a wide range of facilities⁴ to help you become proficient with some of the leading practices and technology in the marketing industry, and prepare for work.

Take a virtual tour of our campus to explore all of the facilities⁴ available to you.

Enterprise Hub

At Coventry University London, students can not only study Entrepreneurship, but they can also experience it as well. Students intrigued by the idea of starting their own business can do so at our Enterprise Hub where they can make their business idea a reality.

This facility provides an ideal location to meet with future clients, business partners or to collaborate with other entrepreneurial students. In addition, students will be able to use the address of Coventry University London as the address for their business - giving them a distinguished City of London trading address.

Mac Suite

There is a fully equipped Mac Suite for digital and creative work. Here you could learn to create digital marketing and social media campaigns and engage with consumers in effective ways. Our Mac Suite has the latest industry standard software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. 

Careers and opportunities

The course aims to equip graduates with leading theories and concepts of strategy, leadership, finance, entrepreneurship, along with specialised knowledge in marketing management, creativity and brand communications, and digital marketing. The MBA course is designed for professionals and graduates, who want to develop business and management skills to boost their current career, perhaps make a career change, start their own business or lead their existing business into its next growth phase.

On successful completion, you should be able to:

describe the impact of external forces on marketing and business – such as legal systems; corporate governance; and ethical, economic, environmental, social and technological change issues
develop intelligent, well-informed and creative marketing strategies which target groups and a set of organisational goals
develop international markets for resources, goods and services, taking into account the expectations of customers and other stakeholders
describe consumer segmentation and profiling, and know how to orient products, services and communication towards selected segments and profiles
articulate the importance of innovation to business success.

The course aims to help you to accelerate your career progression in international marketing upon successful completion – whether you take a holistic approach to all marketing disciplines or focus on a specialism of your choice. This course provides the opportunity to equip yourself with the high-level marketing, business and finance skills, which employers are looking for in their future leaders. Upon successful completion, you’ll potentially be able to pursue the professional, senior management and leadership roles which interest you in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. The international focus of your course means you could work almost anywhere. You could work for a multinational or a company which imports/exports, either in the UK or overseas. Upon successful completion you’ll also have an excellent skillset for helping organisations to begin doing business internationally for the first time.

Where our graduates work

When you graduate, you might choose to join a business of any size, from a start-up (perhaps your own!) to an SME or a global enterprise. Your work could take you into industry and manufacturing, the services sector, or even the charity or humanitarian sectors. You might decide to join, or start, a marketing services company/agency which supplies services to business. This could offer you a particular opportunity to specialise in areas such as market research, branding, public relations, IT, digital marketing, advertising or customer service. Another option could be consultancy, perhaps with one of the world’s leading consulting firms. Alternatively, you might go into related fields such as journalism or product research and development.

Further study

As part of the journey of professional and role development, students are encouraged to continue on their academic journey through access to a range of higher degrees, including PhD and other taught doctorates.

I recently began a role as a Customer Marketing Executive for The Gym Group in their head office in London. The International Marketing MBA course really helped me stand out from other candidates, as they were really impressed with my degree and the modules on the course. Besides my own work experience, the marketing modules in particular helped me to secure my role, as I was able to show my knowledge during tasks in the interview process.
Yasmin Olatunji, MBA International Marketing student, quoted in 2021

How to apply

UK students

International students

Students applying to start in September should apply directly to the university. Read our application pages to find out your next steps to apply.

How to apply

For further support for international applicants applying for an postgraduate degree view our International hub.

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Disclaimers

Coventry University together with Coventry University London, Coventry University Wrocław, CU Coventry, CU London, CU Scarborough, and Coventry University Online come together to form part of the Coventry University Group (the University) with all degrees awarded by Coventry University.

¹Accreditations

The majority of our courses have been formally recognised by professional bodies, which means the courses have been reviewed and tested to ensure they reach a set standard. In some instances, studying on an accredited course can give you additional benefits such as exemptions from professional exams (subject to availability, fees may apply). Accreditations, partnerships, exemptions and memberships shall be renewed in accordance with the relevant bodies’ standard review process and subject to the university maintaining the same high standards of course delivery.

²UK and international opportunities

Please note that we are unable to guarantee any UK or international opportunities (whether required or optional) such as internships, work experience, field trips, conferences, placements or study abroad opportunities and that all such opportunities may be unpaid and/or subject to additional costs (which could include, but is not limited to, equipment, materials, bench fees, studio or facilities hire, travel, accommodation and visas), competitive application, availability and/or meeting any applicable travel, public authority guidance, decisions or orders and visa requirements. To ensure that you fully understand any visa requirements, please contact the International Office.

³Tuition fees

The University will charge the tuition fees that are stated in the above table for the first Academic Year of study. The University will review tuition fees each year. For UK (home) students, if Parliament permit an increase in tuition fees, the University may increase fees for each subsequent year of study in line with any such changes. Note that any increase is expected to be in line with inflation.

For international students, we may increase fees each year, but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation. If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course (e.g. to repeat a year or resit examinations) the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.

⁴Facilities

Facilities are subject to availability. Access to some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) may vary from those advertised and/or may have reduced availability or restrictions where the university is following public authority guidance, decisions or orders.

Student Contract

By accepting your offer of a place and enrolling with us, a Student Contract will be formed between you and the university. A copy of the current 2024/2025 contract is available on the website. The Contract details your rights and the obligations you will be bound by during your time as a student and contains the obligations that the university will owe to you. You should read the Contract before you accept an offer of a place and before you enrol at the university.