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Strayer BBA, Marketing

Effectively marketing products and services is an important factor of business success.  The greatest innovation in the world is useless if no one knows that it exists.

As you earn an online BBA in marketing from Strayer University, you develop the skills to help you effectively position your company as an industry leader and efficiently reach target audiences while learning on your own flexible schedule.

Explore consumer behavior and purchasing decisions.  Discuss the tactical elements of winning marketing campaigns, such as paid messaging, organic word-of-mouth, and best practices for launching both digital and traditional marketing campaigns.

Learn how to create a great marketing plan.  Analyze pricing policies and value creation.  Embrace the chance to develop a deeper understanding of marketing data collection and analysis tools that allow you to gather customer information, gauge the success of campaigns, and get the best ROI for your marketing efforts.

Sample of core courses

  • Introduction to Business
  • Effective Communication Skills
  • Management Concepts
  • Business and Society
  • Principles of Marketing

Concentration courses

  • Customer Behavior
  • Marketing Communications
  • International Marketing
  • Strategic Market Pricing
  • Strategic Marketing

Employment settings to explore*

  • Retail organization
  • Corporation
  • Advertising agency
  • Market research firm
  • Financial service company
  • Bank
  • Technology company
  • Manufacturer
  • Insurance agency
  • Healthcare organization

Job titles/positions to explore*

  • Marketing/sales assistant
  • Marketing/sales coordinator
  • Marketing manager
  • Marketing specialist
  • Marketing associate
  • Account manager
  • Product marketing manager
  • Marketing analyst
  • Communications specialist

*These are examples intended to serve as a general guide. Some positions may prefer or even require previous experience, licensure, certifications, and/or other designations along with a degree. Because many factors determine what position an individual may attain, Strayer cannot guarantee that a graduate will secure any specific job title, a promotion, salary increase, or other career outcome. We encourage you to research requirements for your job target and career goals.

Apply new skills

  • Market research, customer analysis, product development, integrated marketing communications, pricing, and marketing channels
  • How marketing is integrated within an organization
  • Development of marketing plans and marketing strategies for a variety of socioeconomic environments
  • Using marketing principles to construct product management, pricing, promotion, and distribution theories to achieve objectives
  • Development of effective marketing strategies using web-based business operations, including e-commerce

Why BBA?

The Bachelor of Business Administration* prepares graduates to pursue a wide range of managerial positions in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Business Administration students can acquire fundamental, practical and professional skills in all phases of business including decisionmaking and problem-solving capabilities. The program also provides a strong liberal arts component that develops communication skills, information literacy, abstract thinking and critical analysis while fostering historical, political and social awareness.

The Bachelor of Business Administration program offers concentrations that enable students to tailor their degrees to their career and educational goals. Concentrations are available  in:

Accounting****

Acquisition and Contract Management

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Health Services Administration***

Hospitality and Tourism Management**

Human Resource Management

Joe Gibbs Performance Management

Management

Marketing

Project Management

Retail Management

Social Media Marketing*****

*Arkansas, Maryland, and New Jersey students enrolled in the Bachelor of Business

Administration program must follow the program requirements as set forth in the state-specific sections of the catalog.

**Hospitality and Tourism Management Concentration is not available in Arkansas or Delaware.

***Health Services Administration is not available in Maryland campuses. This concentration is offered online only to students in Maryland.

****Accounting Concentration is not available in Arkansas.

*****The Social Media Marketing Concentration is not yet available in North Carolina.

******This offer is not available to: (a) continuing students; (b) employees of Strategic Education, Inc. And its subsidiaries, and family members residing in the same household of such employees; or (c) students enrolled through Strayer@Work or Degrees@Work. For all other students, laptop available only to Strayer University students who: (1) are a new or readmitted student in a Strayer University bachelor’s-level program; (2) have at least six courses to complete in their program; and (3) enroll for classes starting fall 2019 quarter or later. Students must complete three of their first four quarters of enrollment, or return the laptop to avoid a $350 charge. This offer is subject to change at any time. Only one laptop will be provided per student. In the event the laptop is damaged, lost, stolen, or incapacitated, strayer will not provide a replacement. All returns subject to return policy. Complete details are available in the bachelor’s laptop agreement or the bachelor’s laptop Verizon and Verizon Wireless loaner agreement, as applicable. Students receiving tuition assistance from Verizon or Verizon Wireless may only borrow and use a laptop subject to the terms of the bachelor’s laptop Verizon and Verizon Wireless loaner agreement. Limitations for other corporate-sponsored programs may also apply. Please contact your home campus or strayer online for more information.

Why Strayer?

  • Online and Campus options
  • 13 Concentrations
  • Start a bachelor's and receive your Strayer laptop******
  • Transfer up to 28 classes of previous coursework toward your degree
  • Credit for Work and Life Experience: Challenge Exams and Portfolio Review options (fees apply)
  • Strayer Studios Documentary-Style Video Content
  • Support along the way: An Admissions Officer will guide you through the Admissions process and then a Student Services Coach will help you navigate from your first quarter through to graduation