Marketing Courses and Qualifications Reviewed

What is the best marketing qualification?

According to Marketing Week, less than half of marketing professionals have a qualification in marketing.

It’s a bit of an age-old debate in our industry. Can you learn everything you need to know on the job or should you get qualified?

Find the best marketing course or qualification for you

This page isn’t here to answer that debate – but if you own conclusion is ‘I would like to do a marketing course’, your next question is likely to be: what is ‘the best’ marketing course or qualification to take?

For that reason – we’ve collated some of the best known marketing courses and created this Guide to Marketing Qualifications in collaboration with Cambridge Marketing College.

So… are you ready? Here goes…

(Oh, and if you think we’ve missed any courses/qualifications – let us know here and we’ll get appropriate ones listed!)

 

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The CIPR Professional PR Diploma is based on professional public relations/communications practice underpinned by core PR principles, models and concepts. The CIPR Professional PR Diploma will enable you to: deepen your knowledge and understanding of professional PR practice, tactics and strategy in a range of contexts and for a range of audiences and purposes; develop a framework for strategic and critical thinking that will enable you to make an effective, ethical and responsible contribution to your organisation; draw upon PR principles, models and concepts to create, implement and evaluate effective communication and management strategies; critically analyse current issues relevant to the field of public relations to produce insightful contributions to debate.

Manager, Senior

£1275 +VAT

Online

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Gain sound theoretical and practical knowledge of digital communication management within the context of strategic PR, based on an understanding of current and emerging technologies, digital strategies and social media platforms.

Manager, Senior

£1295 +VAT

Online

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The MRS Certificate in Market Research (MRS Certificate) is designed to recognise the range of knowledge and understanding required to: - understand the role of market research in decision making - understand the basic principles and processes which underpin effective market research - know how to choose the most appropriate method or tool for a project - understand the value of research information to the business or organisation.

Junior/entry level

£360+VAT

Online

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The MRS Advanced Certificate therefore enables candidates to develop a clear practical understanding of the principles underpinning all stages in the research process, and to develop the skills required to enable them to design and carry out key research tasks. As such, it enables candidates to select appropriate approaches and tools based on a clear understanding of the research problem and the objectives of any associated programme of research.

Manager

£708 plus £81 membership

Online, Hybrid

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The professional certificate in social media will teach you how to use data to create customer focused social media strategies. You will be taken through the entire lifecycle of developing an overarching social media strategy and a campaign based strategy.

Junior/entry level, Manager

£995

Online

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Intelligent digital marketing campaigns have their customer, data, and content at the heart of them. Move your marketing skills forward with the times, and invest in becoming an Intelligent Marketing Manager.

Manager, Senior

£2410 - £2830, plus £345 exam fee

Face to face, Online, Hybrid

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Digital Marketing leadership is fast evolving with a focus on data and customers to drive better performance through digital and broader omni-channel marketing. Sign up for our Postgraduate Diploma to develop your intelligent marketing leadership.

Manager, Senior

£2950 plus £375 exam fee

Online

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The IPM Incentive & Motivation Diploma provides a good overall understanding of Incentive & Motivation and is a qualification that is recognised by the industry at large. It is the aim of the Diploma to increase standards of professionalism in the industry and provide a benchmark for employers.

Manager, Senior

£1575 plus VAT

Online

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The IPM Diploma provides you with a thorough and robust understanding of all things Promotional Marketing and the specialisms within. It's a qualification that we're proud to say is industry recognised. It is the aim of the Diploma to increase standards of professionalism in the industry and provide a benchmark for employers.

Manager, Senior

£1750 plus VAT

Hybrid

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To give candidates a thorough, and working understanding of the Promotional Marketing industry as a whole, the Audiences and Channels with which they work on a daily basis in their current roles, and the Legal and Code aspect of all Promotions and the importance placed on these

Junior/entry level

£1110 plus VAT

Online