Undergraduate marketing majors at UT Dallas have many 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 BS in Marketing students can students can get involved on campus:
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition awarded a service that helps applicants align their résumés to keywords in job postings the $25,000 grand prize in an event that showcased five other contenders and gave $40,000 in prizes.
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.
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.
The head of the Jindal School’s Career Management Center has been recognized for his service in the military and as a veteran. Assistant Dean Tom Kim earned a commendation from the Texas 26th Congressional District, where he grew up and now resides.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Maria Gomez Albrecht, a lecturer in the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Marketing Area, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association as executive vice president of special interest groups. The chapter’s mission, she says, is to educate, support and enhance the […]
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.
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.
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.
Jindal School students in Diane McNulty’s Business Ethics course used their content-creation and social-media skills in a United Way community service project that taught them about corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.
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.
Former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tied education to economic viability in a keynote conversation at the Jindal School’s major annual fundraiser, the Scholarship Breakfast. The event raised enough to provide scholarships for more than 40 students.
Two faculty members in the Naveen Jindal School of Management have been recognized by Marketing Science, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and tracked in The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™. Sanjay Jain Drs. Upender Subramanian and Sanjay Jain are both professors in the […]
