Marketing Communications for Social Change (with Foundation Year option) BA (Hons)

Why study BA (Hons) Marketing Communications for Social Change at BU?

    • Explore how marketing communications can drive social change promoting wellbeing, ethical practices and sustainability for the benefit of businesses, people and the planet
    • Develop a critical understanding of integrated marketing communications that will enable you to adapt to a variety of roles in the industry  
    • Work on live briefs set by industry for unit assessments and learn from professionals who deliver guest lectures and workshops every year  
    • Co-create academic and professional research with staff including consultancy projects for industry clients  
    • Tailor your dgree to suit you with the opportunity to move across our Marketing Communications courses at the end of your first year and select from a range of option units in your final year
    • Complete a work placement anywhere in the world, giving you the chance to put theory into practice, make great career contacts and bolster your blossoming CV

Graduate with a BU degree and more

Our degree is accredited by the leading professional marketing body, The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). CIM works alongside universities worldwide, mapping their degree content against CIM’s most sought after professional marketing qualifications. 

Upon graduating with a 2:2 or above, graduates will be able to complete Level 4 and Level 6 professional qualifications with exemptions. All first-year students will have the opportunity to complete Level 3 qualifications with the CIM (with associated cost), which will allow you to gain a professional qualification prior to your work placement.

BA (Hons) Award
September Start
Full-time Study Mode
3 - 5 years Duration
N581/N585 UCAS Code

Entry Requirements For This Course

For September 2026 entry: 104 - 120 UCAS tariff points including a minimum of two A-levels or equivalent. T Levels: Merit (120 UCAS tariff points).

Foundation Year Entry Requirements for September 2026 entry: 48 - 72 UCAS tariff points.

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