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Build your understanding of marketing fundamentals and learn skills in communication, branding, analytics and more.
BS in MarketingMaster’s Degree Programs
Master the skills that empower you to understanding customer needs and the competitive environment.
MS in Marketing
PhD with Marketing Concentration
Develop strong research skills that are especially relevant for students interested in an academic career.
PhD in Marketing
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is essential to running a business or a non-profit organization with a focus on the customer and the firm’s objectives. Good marketing decisions are made by understanding customer needs and the competitive environment. The field of marketing is vital for careers in general management. Further specializations include strategic marketing, product management, retailing, advertising and market research. A more recent phenomenon, the growth of E-commerce, has posed a different set of challenges to marketing.
The marketing academic area in the Naveen Jindal School of Management offers the following Marketing degrees:
- Bachelor of Science in Marketing
- Master of Science in Marketing
- MBA Degree with a Focus in Marketing
- PhD in Management Science with Concentration in Marketing
Marketing Resource Articles
Learn more about specific areas of marketing and specific career paths and opportunities available to you. The authors of these articles include marketing students, faculty, and staff.
Students’ Work Played a Part in a Corporate Acquisition
In May 2019, Shannon Cotts won the DFW AMA Collegiate Marketer of the Year award for her outstanding data analysis provided to startup business Fixd, a Dallas-based home warranty and service repair business.
Research Isn’t Just for Science Majors — It’s for Marketing Majors, Too!
While a BS in Marketing program student, Claudia Kwee had a chance to conduct a research project and present it at an educators’ conference in Houston.
What You Learn From Capstone Senior Projects
Capstone Senior Projects give students a taste of real-world situations. Students gain experience working with corporations in the community, showcasing their expertise and professionalism.
Capstone Senior Projects Provides Real-World Solutions for an Array of Clients
The Professional Program in Marketing (PPM) is a program that provides supplemental workshops and professional opportunities while also encouraging participation in rigorous courses. This elite program was the brainchild of a past Capstone Senior Project Marketing (MKT 4395) course.
Now Is a Good Time to Help a Nonprofit Organization
By being part of the UT Dallas community, we know we are blessed with support, resources and connections — but most of all hope.
What Does a Brand Manager Do?
Marketing Career Focus: Brand Management
A brand manager is responsible for the overall image of a product or person. Key elements of the job are researching the marketplace to determine where the product or client fits in.
How Our Marketing Students Land Over 150 Internships Every Year
The BS in Marketing program’s required internship is important for acquiring needed experience to land that first job. It’s also a crucial part of our trilogy experience, which includes completion of an internship, 100 hours of community engagement experience and a capstone senior project course.
Alumni Spotlights
Chanel Ebanks-Texada, BS’16
Watson Customer Engagement Account Executive, IBM
Ebanks-Texada has launched her career at IBM, where she is prospecting and generating business in the public sector.
Mindy Tiu, BS’14
GE, Commercial Leadership Program
Mindy Tiu, now living in Stamford, Conn, fully embraced her time at UT Dallas by taking part in a broad range of campus activities.
Glenn D. Lovelace, BS’81
CEO, Peñasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Lovelace graduated from what was then the School of Management with a marketing degree and minors in computer science and finance.
Paulina Jesionek, BS’13, MS’15, MBA’15
Marketing Program Specialist, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jesionek graduated cum laude in Fall 2013 with two undergraduate degrees – Global Business and Marketing. She delivered the commencement address that year.
Kate Reagan, BS’15
Assistant Vice President, Business Development, Texas Capital Bank
In Reagan’s role at Texas Capital Bank, she leans on both degrees she earned at Jindal School – a bachelor’s degree in accounting and marketing.
Matthew A. Thompson, BS’12
Automation Marketing Manager, StructuredWeb
Matthew A. Thompson, who majored in marketing, moved to New York City soon after graduation. Once there, he landed a job at ALM, a specialized business news and information company largely focused on the legal community.
Randall Tan, BS’13
Key Account Manager at Softlayer, An IBM Company
Randall Tan had plenty of success before launching his academic career at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Marketing Faculty Research
We are committed to creating a practical and applied learning environment for the study, research, and practice of marketing. Our series of courses has been designed to meet the needs of students who choose general management careers as well as those who choose to study marketing.
See recent research highlights from our marketing facultyMarketing Blogs & News
Find advice and resources you need as a current or prospective student in marketing.
Web Analytics as a Key Skill or Profession for Marketers
Overview of skills needed for web analytics managers and how these map to the courses offered at the MS or Master of Science in Marketing, Digital track. Our web analytics course covers all the basics of web analytics using the Adobe and Google analytics platforms.
Alumna at Nonprofit Confronts a Global Crisis With Local Impact
Lessons from the Jindal School, particularly the importance of being flexible, resonate for an alumna facing the COVID-19 crisis at a food bank’s font lines. And a marketing professor offers ideas on how students can help from home.
What Does a Product Manager Do?
Overview of skills needed for product managers and how these map to the courses offered at the MS or Master of Science in Marketing at UT Dallas. The job of the product manager is to discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible.
What is Social Media Marketing?
Marketing Career Focus: Social Media Marketing
Overview of skills needed by social media marketing managers and how these map to the courses offered at the MS or Master of Science in Marketing at UT Dallas. Our program not only offers in-depth courses in social media but also in related areas.
Mentoring Sparks Undergrad’s Research Efforts
Positive mentoring experiences sparked a Jindal School marketing major’s curiosity and opened the door to her research. Since winning a UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Award, she has refined her work and presented her findings on and off campus.
Cultivating Relationships with Tech Companies Critical to Student Success
The Jindal School nurtures relationships with companies that create digital tools and apps — those that include analytics, cloud, mobile, social and software technologies — so that students can be well-prepared to use them professionally.
What Is Marketing Automation?
Marketing Career Focus: Marketing Automation
Overview of needed skills for marketing automation careers and how these map to the courses offered at the MS Marketing at UT Dallas. Our program is one of the few in the nation to offer a specific course in marketing automation and campaigns.
Strategic Management Online Contest Grows in Popularity, Gains No. 4 Winner
Efforts to get more Jindal School undergraduate and graduate students to enter an online contest based on their strategic management course yielded more entrants and more top finishers. One Jindal School student finished No. 4 in the world.
Student Group Shows Top Hosting, Competing Skills at State Leadership Conference
All UT Dallas business contest competitors at the Phi Beta Lambda Texas State Leadership Conference qualified to compete at the National Leadership Conference in June. The UTD chapter also hosted the state leadership conference this year.
Senior Wins Student Entrepreneur and Collegiate Marketer of the Year Awards
A marketing senior recently brought home two major competition awards, one from Dallas Startup Week for her entrepreneurship and one from the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association, which named her Collegiate Marketer of the Year.
JSOM Team Finishes Second in Adobe Analytics Challenge
A trio of JSOM graduate marketing students finished second and earned $14k in the Adobe Analytics Challenge, a business case competition. “Their win highlights the quality of our digital courses,” MS in Marketing Program Director Alex Edsel said.
‘Fearless’ Strategist Honored with Marketing Legends Award
Jindal School’s Marketing Legends Award honoree David Meerman Scott, an early advocate of social media and the strategist who coined the term “newsjacking,” advised his audience on the right ways to stand out and be fearless as a marketer.
Maximize Your JSOM Marketing Experience: Check Out These Clubs and Organizations
Dallas-Fort Worth clubs and national marketing organizations that marketing students should consider attending or joining. If you at the graduate level, networking with industry professionals should be one of your top priorities.
‘Dynamic Duo’ Wins at International Collegiate Sales Competition
Jindal School seniors Katherine Reagan and Laura Su recently won the International Collegiate Sales Competition’s Sales Management Case Competition.
Comets Shine at the Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference
UT Dallas student competitors scored a record number of first-place finishes at the Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference. All 10 UTD contestants placed in the top 10 in every event they entered.
Sales Program Earns High Honors at First International Competition
Jindal School sales students made a notable first foray into competing abroad this spring, placing first and third in the speed-sell contest and second in role-play at the 2019 UK University Sales Competition in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jindal School Inaugurates Undergraduate Deans Conference
The Jindal School recently held a new conference convening assistant and associate deans of undergraduate business school programs. More than 80 universities were represented, and the deans discussed ways to improve programs and student experiences.
What Does a Marketing Analyst Do?
Marketing Career Focus: Marketing Analytics
Overview of skills needed for marketing analytics managers and how these map to the courses offered at the MS or Master of Science in Marketing at UT Dallas. The marketing analytics track has 3 core courses covering database marketing, spreadsheet modeling and business analytics with either SAS or R, plus 15 electives.
Summit Addresses Sales Pros’ Ambitions to Move Into Leadership Roles
The Jindal School of Management’s Center for Professional Sales hosted a daylong summit with nearly a dozen keynote speakers, workshops, discussions and executive briefings, all geared to help sales professionals move into leadership roles.
Go, Pro Sales Team! Winning at the Collegiate World Cup of Sales
Our very own UTD Sales team placed in multiple challenges and earned the new top honor, the Collegiate World Cup of Sales. The UT Dallas Sales Team is part of The Professional Sales Concentration, an academic specialization offered by JSOM.
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Student Testimonials
Brandon Borick, MS ’22
The M.S. in Marketing Fast Track Program was one of the most valuable opportunities I was able to take advantage of during my time at UT Dallas. In five years, I was able to attain both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, which has opened opportunities many entry-level business professionals don’t often receive.
Mahesh Jajoo
This program has helped me grow in different domains of marketing. It is one of the only programs worldwide that allows you to choose multiple courses between tracks. The amount of research that goes into preparing the material for the course is amazing, keeping the teaching material up to date with the changes in the marketing field. It also has taught me the best marketing principles and lessons through its core courses, which I will use throughout my marketing career. Overall, a program that has taken care of all the ever-changing dynamics of marketing that I was looking for and helped me grow as a marketer.
Kyana Shamloo, BS’15
Product Marketing Manager, Freeman Company
I really enjoyed the marketing program at UT Dallas because they made it a point to have your class requirements be in various subjects.
Jerry Hao, MS’14
Data Scientist, Amazon
The MS in Marketing director and faculty changed my career trajectory to that of a data scientist. Thanks to the high level analytics courses and career-placement opportunities, I was able to get my foot in the door at a prestigious marketing agency, Brierley + Partners, followed quickly by opportunities at Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and Amazon.
John Walling, BS’21
Class of 2021
Being a part of the BS in Marketing program at UTD has been an enjoyable and adventurous experience for me.
Hema Shesha Sai Ganta, MS ’22
MS in Marketing at UTD is an incredible program. I thoroughly enjoyed pursuing the Marketing Analytics and Customer Insights track. The courses and unparalleled knowledge of professors helped me gain a better understanding of analytical applications in a real-world business setting. I highly recommend this program to anyone who is passionate about marketing.
Christian de Lara, BS’17
Enterprise Business Development Representative, Salesforce
I believe that the UTD Marketing program has given me an incredible foundation to develop my professional brand.
Mao Li, MS’14
Senior Manager of Competitive Intelligence, Health System, Marketing Insights and Analytics, Philips
The MS in Marketing program is a well-organized program with agile setup. It has different tracks to choose to fit your career direction. I highly recommend the program for further development in the marketing industry.
Jo-Annie Au, BS’20
Class of 2020
Through the UTD Marketing program, I’ve been able to fuel my passion for advertising and content creation. The program has given me the opportunity to learn from professionals while also getting to work with real clients and local companies.
Holly Lynn
UT Dallas has helped me immensely by giving me the tools and knowledge to start a career path in the world of marketing right here in my hometown. I have grown with confidence to become a leader thanks to the many ways of communicating that have opened up to me, meaning things that were learned will not be forgotten!
Pratiksha Tonpe, BS’21
Class of 2021
The MS in Marketing program in the JSOM has offered so many fantastic opportunities where I could learn more about the industry and meet professionals.
Varika Pinnam, BS’20
Class of 2020
I chose to attend UTD because I felt I had found a community here before I ever even moved to Texas. I decided upon the Marketing program in particular because I wanted to be a part of a fast-paced, impactful business world but work creatively and be able to generate and implement new ideas rather than work in a rigid structure.
Rebecca Sollars, BS’20
B2B Client Solutions Executive, AT&T
I’m about to graduate, and I have secured a job with a Fortune 10 company, AT&T. I would never have been able to accomplish this without the help of UTD!
Musa Ato, BS’12
Managing Director, Adolfin Group
The UTD Marketing program was my foundation in crafting the League of Rebels brand.
Brandon Borick, BS’20
Class of 2020
The UT Dallas BS in Marketing program has helped me pursue my interests in entertainment marketing by shaping its coursework to my own needs.
Tim Nguyen, BS’19
Sales Development Associate, WESCO Distribution
The UTD marketing program provided me the resources and experiences that I was able to apply to my now ongoing career path.
Ada (Zhu) Choi, BS’14, MS’15
Retail Strategy Manager, Samsung Electronics America
The MS in Marketing prepared me to face real-world challenges through very applicable courses and ample networking opportunities. The professors and courses gave me deeper knowledge. If you crave intellectual stimulation and growth, I’d highly recommend the master’s program at UTD.
Michelle Bassil, MS ’22
The MBA & Master of Science in Marketing programs have provided me with the opportunity to gain a vast amount of relevant knowledge that is applicable to real-world business problems. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to further my education in a way that allowed me to pursue multiple interests simultaneously!
Mike Hart, MS’14
Vice President of Sales, Lennox Industries
The UTD Marketing master’s program was a great experience. The networking opportunities were excellent, and the quality of the students added to the overall value of the program. I would recommend this program to anyone who wants to gain a deeper knowledge of marketing principles as they apply to the real world of business.
Lauren Sparger, BS’20
Sports Marketing Graduate Program, Red Bull
During my time as a student, the BS in Marketing program allowed me numerous opportunities to gain real life marketing skill sets and business acumen.
Marketing Program Resources at the Jindal School
Academic Programs – Primary
The Marketing academic area offers one bachelor’s, one master’s and one PhD program.
Online Degrees
Academic Programs – Additional
The Marketing area also offers accelerated pathways to adding more degrees as well as professional programs and concentrations.
Faculty and Advisory Board
Discover how Marketing area faculty are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community.
Community Activity
Marketing area students, faculty and staff are engaged in the community through center activity, events and more.