Undergraduate marketing majors at UT Dallas have a multitude of opportunities to engage with fellow students, network with professionals, and sharpen their résumés while making friends and having fun. Here are just a few of the ways you can get involved on campus as a BS in Marketing student at JSOM:
Join our award-winning American Marketing Association (AMA) UTD chapter, the Sales Club, the American Advertising Federation (AAF), or explore other JSOM clubs and student organizations.
Get on the Marketing Leadership Council and exercise your management skills.
Earn a Sales or Digital Marketing (Google Adwords) certification.
Compete in marketing competitions in classes, regionally or nationally.
Earn a marketing or sales scholarship provided by our program or our partners.
Benefit from three marketing advisory boards (General Marketing, Sales and Marketing Analytics) that facilitate jobs, evaluate curriculum and provide general support.
Attend informative practitioner conferences.
Leverage career fairs and networking events for marketing majors only.
Meet Your Fellow Marketing Majors
Bachelor’s in Marketing graduate Jessie Richardson says the Marketing program at UT Dallas was everything she could have asked for.
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Benefit from three marketing advisory boards (General Marketing, Sales and Marketing Analytics) that facilitate jobs, evaluate curriculum and provide general support.
Attend informative practitioner conferences.
Leverage career fairs and networking events for marketing majors only.
Work closely with the award-winning DFW American Marketing Association.
Make an Impact with Undergraduate Student Research
Research projects on campus are an exceptional opportunity for professional growth. JSOM undergraduate marketing students can:
Conduct research projects with faculty support.
Apply for a UT Dallas Undergraduate Research grant.
Compete to be published in UT Dallas’ undergraduate journal, The Exley.
Attend academic conferences supported by our marketing program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Explore our essential resources and advice for current and prospective undergraduate marketing majors and learn what incredible things our faculty and alumni are up to.
A Jindal School marketing student won the DFW American Marketing Association’s 2019 Collegiate Marketer of the Year Award. Shannon Cotts’ success marks the sixth time since 2012 that a JSOM student has won.
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.
Recently elected vice chair of the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, JSOM marketing major and star soccer player Joseph Weber is using his role to advance his postgraduate goals of behind-the-scenes involvement in athletics.
Students in Jindal School of Management sales courses are reaping rewards from artificial intelligence technology that can analyze their sales calls and role-plays.Their efforts are to be featured in a video by the company that makes the technology.
A Jindal School graduate and two current students have been named to 2019NTX Inno Under 25, a list of young leaders and entrepreneurs in North Texas under the age of 25. In all, nine of the 14 honorees have UT Dallas ties.
Saher Lakhani is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Global Business and Bachelor of Science in Marketing double-major at the Naveen Jindal School of Management and she is expected to graduate in Spring 2024.
This academic year, donor scholarships have provided Jindal School students nearly a half-million dollars in assistance. The scholarships bridge a money gap or provide a springboard to achievement, and they help students reach educational goals.
Aaliya Mohammed is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Marketing at the Naveen Jindal School of Management and she is expected to graduate in December 2024.
Jindal School sales students scored the most points overall at the annual International Collegiate Sales Competition recently, an achievement that led them to win a new team event and bring home the inaugural Collegiate World Cup of Sales.
Based in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, the UT Dallas chapter of the student organization Phi Beta Lambda brought home 26 first-, second, and third-place awards from the Texas State Leadership Conference.
Many Jindal School sales students see a potential employer in Center for Professional Sales corporate partner Beck Technology. Students realize “that Beck is agile, innovative and a modern selling organization,” says Center Director Howard Dover.
A study of Twitter data had marketing students and their professional mentors analyzing “accelerants of relevance,” all the traits that might cause a piece of news to go viral on social media.
A Jindal School of Management student team placed second in North America and 12th globally in Google AdWords Global Online Marketing Challenge last spring. The team’s campaign had a “click-through rate” of 5.58 percent; the benchmark is 2 percent.
Jindal School sales students launched the fall with a Speed Sell competition followed by a presentation from renowned sales expert and author Mark Hunter. Events like these reinforce classroom teachings and introduce students to potential employers.
Fragrant strawberries mean the sweet smell of success for a JSOM marketing student who developed a sellout skin-care serum using the aromatic fruit. Using marketing and innovation skills learned at UT Dallas, she already is working on new ideas.
Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul reaches out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters with an update on the state of the school as classes resume following spring break and during the coronavirus outbreak.
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.
Freshmen members of the UT Dallas DECA chapter won all the first-, second- and third-place prizes the chapter earned at the 2019 DECA International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla. In all, 34 UT Dallas students competed at the event.
For student and faculty work assisting nonprofits, the Jindal School’s undergraduate program in marketing won the 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Marketing Award from the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association.
The Jindal School’s Undergraduate Internship Expo brought together 1,500 students and recruiters from more than 50 companies. The expo helped students practice networking skills, and it helped employers find students to fill internships.
