The Master of Marketing is for those looking to invest in a specialist, professional course that builds on their current experience and skill sets. If you want to climb the next rung of your career, this course will give you excellent grounding in crucial areas that affect the performance of modern markets.

Diversify your knowledge and skills by studying cutting-edge concepts and frameworks that underpin modern marketing. You will learn to appreciate the business and entrepreneurial acumen that is needed to grow a business. You will hone your research, strategy and communication skills, this expertise will help you succeed in the upper echelons of business. You can elect to study two postgraduate units from any course offered by the Deakin Faculty of Business and Law (subject to unit entry requirements). These units will help to broaden your knowledge of business and management. We suggest units in leadership, process management or financial interpretation.

More importantly, you can undertake specialist streams and choose between Customer and Digital Marketing Analytics, Public Relations and Image Marketing, or Research. These are areas currently driving change in markets and industry. These specialisations will give you a deeper understanding-of and abilities-in in these specialist marketing areas. The Research stream can serve as a pathway to a PhD.

You will have exciting opportunities for internships, international study tours and can work on real projects with our industry partners. Senior and Chief Marketers feature regularly in our classes as guest speakers.

Having an in-depth understanding of marketing concepts and techniques is valuable in industry, government and community. You will complete this course with high quality skills, aptitude and the qualification to grow into a thriving marketing career.

You may gain entry to the Master of Marketing program through successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Marketing

Graduates who are employed in management roles can expect to find move to more senior managerial positions; these senior posts will require you to have market savvy, market management and entrepreneurial capabilities. Examples of these jobs in areas like general marketing (e.g., marketing manager, product manager, and client manager), branding (brand manager, new market manager), research (Market Intelligence Officer), digital media, marketing communications management, and customer experience manager. The Master of Marketing helps you launch your career into senior management. I urge you to use your time in the course to increase the quality of your academic and industry networks, this will build your visibility and value as a business leader.