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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Welcome to fall semester, Jindal School students. You have many options to learn and many opportunities to shine. Whether in class in person or attending online, Senior Associate Dean Monica Powell encourages your participation.
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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.
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The 19th annual Frank M. Bass – UT Dallas Frontiers of Research in Marketing Science Conference (UTD FORMS) attracted attendees from universities across the United States and internationally. The event was held Feb. 28-29 and presented by the Naveen Jindal School of Management. Frank Bass A wide range of topics were discussed in two-dozen, hour-long […]
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 […]
