Business with Marketing

Business with marketing is a degree that develops core business management competencies alongside a specialist understanding of how organisations attract, retain, and create value for their customers. Business education provides the analytical and strategic framework, covering organisational behaviour, finance, operations, and the commercial environments in which businesses compete. Marketing adds the discipline of understanding audiences, building brands, designing campaigns, and using data to evaluate and improve commercial communications.

The combination is particularly well suited to those who want to work in commercially facing roles or who see marketing as central to how businesses create and sustain competitive advantage.

At the University of the West of Scotland, this part-time programme allows you to develop your business and marketing knowledge at a pace that suits your circumstances, making degree-level study in this field accessible to students who are balancing their studies with work or other commitments. You will study marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, brand development, digital marketing, and the management disciplines that underpin effective commercial practice, developing a profile that is valued by employers in a wide range of industries.

Graduates go on to work in marketing, communications, brand management, digital marketing, sales, business development, and general management roles across sectors including retail, consumer goods, professional services, public sector, and the creative and digital industries. The combination of business management breadth and marketing depth is particularly valued by employers who want graduates who can both understand the broader commercial context and contribute to specific marketing functions. Postgraduate study in marketing, digital marketing, or business management is a common further step.