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Match wit, insight, and creativity with strategy and tactics.

Are you interested in learning what makes people tick and uncovering new ways to persuade and delight? Are you on top of market trends, and want to be charged with launching ideas into action? Isenberg Marketing students learn how to match wit, insight and creativity with brand-building strategy and well-executed tactics. They learn how to listen to and uncover consumer needs and how to develop creative solutions for addressing those needs.

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A Future in Marketing

A Future in Marketing

The marketing major provides students with the skills needed to listen to consumers; to use intuition and data to identify, develop, and execute creative solutions to complex problems; and to communicate these solutions to relevant stakeholders.

Curriculum

Curriculum

Areas of Interest

Areas of Interest

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Experiential Learning

Learn It - Live It – Do It
Our goal is to ensure students are (1) prepared to meet the challenges of the real-world, (2) able to learn in a supportive and inclusive environment, and (3) have the training to identify and develop

Our goal is to ensure students are (1) prepared to meet the challenges of the real-world, (2) able to learn in a supportive and inclusive environment, and (3) have the training to identify and develop market solutions that consider the well-being of the environment, society, and market actors. Many courses include experiential learning, a critical component of our teaching philosophy. This trains our students to be critical thinkers capable of identifying, developing, and executing creative solutions to complex problems.

Full Courses
MK496: Protect Our Breasts Currently offered via an independent study, the Protect Our Breasts course provides students with the opportunity to run a global business focused on educating companies and

MK496: Protect Our Breasts
Currently offered via an independent study, the Protect Our Breasts course provides students with the opportunity to run a global business focused on educating companies and consumers about toxins in products and packaging.

MK498b: Advertising Practicum
This course is a hands-on project-based class. Students work with a real client (frequently as part of a national competition sponsored by Edventure Partners) with a real budget. They identify appropriate tactics for addressing the client’s objectives, implement the proposed campaign, and measure effectiveness.

Experience Within Courses
Within our courses, students are provided hands-on opportunities to make an impact in marketing using tools like social media, Google Analytics, Salesforce and by participating in nationwide industry

Within our courses, students are provided hands-on opportunities to make an impact in marketing using tools like social media, Google Analytics, Salesforce and by participating in nationwide industry competitions. Some of these courses include: Fundamentals of Marketing, Social and Media and Marketing Analysis, Sales and Personal Branding, and Generation Customer Insights.

Putting Skills Into Practice
After mastering essential marketing skills and tools, students apply their knowledge to case studies, hypotheses and research, simulations, sustainability issues, and go on to create their own persona

After mastering essential marketing skills and tools, students apply their knowledge to case studies, hypotheses and research, simulations, sustainability issues, and go on to create their own personal brand to market themselves to potential employers or create their own businesses.

93%
Job-seeking graduates hired within 6 months
$60K
Median starting salary for marketing grads in 2023
Top 12%
of all undergraduate business programs in the nation
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Career Paths in Marketing

Career Paths in Marketing

You will leave Isenberg ready to excel in a range of marketing-related careers in product development, market research, advertising services, copywriting, promotions, and digital media.  Isenberg's Office of Career Success is dedicated to serving the career and professional development needs of Isenberg students.

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Student Clubs

Student Clubs
Isenberg Marketing Club

Provides members with hands-on marketing experience through interactive meetings, guest speakers, field trips, and sub-committee meetings.

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Isenberg Sales Club

Provides members with an understanding of what a professional sales career looks like and hands-on experience on how to conduct sales calls. The competition team competes in global sales competitions around the US.

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UMass AdLab

A student-run ad agency with creative, strategy, and project management teams that provides hands-on valuable experiences from local partnerships to national advertising competitions.

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Marketing Faculty

Marketing Faculty

Heidi Bailey
Heidi Bailey
Lecturer
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Cynthia Barstow
Senior Lecturer
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Eric N. Berkowitz
Professor Emeritus
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Brashear
Thomas G. Brashear Alejandro
Associate Professor
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William Diamond
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Annie Ding
Annie Ding
Assistant Professor
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Matthew Glennon
Senior Lecturer
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Matthew Godfrey
Matthew Godfrey
Assistant Professor
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Easwar Iyer
Professor Emeritus
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Alicia M. Johnson
Alicia M. Johnson
Assistant Professor
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Verónica Martín Ruiz
Assistant Professor
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Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller
Department Chair and Professor
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George Milne
Associate Dean of Research and PhD Programs & Edward D. Shirley ‘78 Endowed Professor of Marketing
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Kun Qian
Kun Qian
Assistant Professor
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Charles Schewe
Professor Emeritus
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Matt Thomson
Matthew Thomson
Charles D. Schewe Faculty Fellow, Professor, and PhD Coordinator
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Bruce D. Weinberg
Professor
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Marc G. Weinberger
Professor Emeritus
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Tom Woodside
Tom Woodside
Lecturer
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Yanfen (Cindy) You
Assistant Professor
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Contact Us

Marketing Department
Room 235
Isenberg School of Management
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003

413.545.6976