Master of Science in Marketing Communications and Advertising with Professional Placement

at Kingston University London - Kingston Hill Campus United Kingdom

This course is a combination of two highly successful courses run by the Business School – the Accounting and Finance MSc and the International Business Management MSc. Both have established international reputations for excellence.

The program is intensive, thorough and challenging, designed to give you the theoretical and practical skills essential for managing today's businesses.

This course is suitable for students who have not studied economics, finance or accountancy at bachelors level, as well as those with previous qualifications and experience.

Do you crave a management role, but have a first degree in another subject? This is our most popular postgraduate course, offering modules covering a wide selection of topics that equip you with the practical skills you need to excel in management or consultancy. It gives you the opportunity to gain expertise in individual business disciplines without limiting your employment options. You can choose to specialise in an area of business that interests you most. Pathways include entrepreneurship, marketing, or project management. Or, you can stay on the general international business management path.

• This course is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
• Opportunity to gain a recognised Prince 2 qualification.
• Possibility to participate in a week-long study visit to a foreign business school where you will meet students studying a similar course and undertake visits to local companies.
• Your assessments will reflect real business situations including undertaking a consultancy project with a real business instead of a dissertation. Recent students have worked with General Electric (GE), L'Oreal, Henkel, Kimberly-Clark and Arqiva.
• You'll benefit from an international curriculum and our students come from all over the world to study, so you will finish the course with an international network of contacts.
• Kingston Business School is one of only a few of the 120 UK business schools to be awarded an 'excellent' rating for its teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council.

Our Marketing Communications and Advertising MSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). You will gain a deep knowledge of each marketing communications channel, with a focus on advertising.The course's signature modules – Marketing Communications and Advertising Strategy and Digital Marketing Communications and Analytics – incorporate theoretical and practical elements of marketing communications strategy, digital advertising and campaign planning.

Graduates from this course will be ready to jump into a variety of advertising, communications and digital marketing roles.

• Industry application and critique: on this course you will pitch to a panel of real marketing agency professionals, who will critique your technique as well as your response to the brief. You will learn to use research to become an expert in a given area, and to communicate these findings to others quickly and effectively. You will gain broad and also deep knowledge of each marketing communications channel, with a focus on advertising.
• Contacts in the sector: guest speakers, from marketing directors to media planners, come to Kingston to share up-to-the-minute information from their campaigns with our students. Even the course syllabus itself is designed and refined in consultation with a panel of marketing experts. With easy access to central London, there are plenty of opportunities to build up a network of contacts.
• Career-ready: the work you complete during your masters builds into a portfolio you can be proud to show recruiters.

Investment and financial risk is a highly competitive sector and our course will give you the IT and research skills that employers demand.

This rigorous and intensive masters course is designed to produce high-calibre, analytical graduates with practical skills who are ready to slot in to a specialised role. As a graduate, you will be ready to work in investment, trading, financial analysis, fund management, banking, financial services, finance and financial consultancy.

The course is an extremely practical programme using real examples, the latest research and theories, and live data.

This course is suitable for both experienced corporate finance and financial management practitioners who want to add to their skills, and those looking for a career in the area.

If you aspire to a career in the fun, dynamic, fast-moving world of marketing or advertising, this is the course for you.

The course is designed in consultation with leading industry experts, bringing together the latest theories and practices in marketing. You'll explore the role and function of contemporary and digital marketing in modern business, so when you graduate, you'll be at the edge of the job market with the knowledge and skills employers seek.

You can gain hands-on marketing experience through an internship, or develop your skills as a consultant by working in a team on a live project. Another option is to delve into entrepreneurship and create your own start-up with support from the Business School.

This course is a combination of two highly successful courses run by the Business School – the Accounting and Finance MSc and the International Business Management MSc. Both have established international reputations for excellence.

The programme is intensive, thorough and challenging, designed to give you the theoretical and practical skills essential for managing today's businesses.

This course is suitable for students who have not studied economics, finance or accountancy at bachelors level, as well as those with previous qualifications and experience.

Mental health nursing is a highly rewarding career where you can make a real difference. One in four people experience mental health problems in any given year, and this course prepares you to work in collaboration with service users, their relatives and carers towards recovery. This course leads to registration as a mental health nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

You'll study both generic modules – alongside students from all fields of nursing – and modules that focus specifically on mental health nursing. You'll have the opportunity to learn first-hand from mental health service users and carers, through our strong partnerships with service user and carer-led organisations.

At the end of your second year you'll have the opportunity to take an elective placement, nationally or internationally.

We have strong partnerships with service user and carer-led organisations. These include the Recovery College, the Sutton Carers Centre and the South West London Recovery College, where you will have the opportunity to learn first-hand from mental health service users.

Children's nursing is very popular and this course will enable you to become a registered children's nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

You'll learn to provide evidence-based care for children and young people (birth to age 18), working in partnership with their families and with other health and social care professionals, in hospital and community settings.

You'll study modules relevant to all fields of nursing, as well as those that focus on children's nursing, you'll also learn about child development, the healthy child as well as children and young people who are acutely ill, or require complex, high dependency or palliative care.

Placement opportunities are at London's leading NHS hospitals such as Great Ormond Street, St George's, St Helier, Kingston, Royal Marsden, Chelsea and Westminster and Croydon Hospitals, as well as in community settings.

You'll be taught by a dynamic teaching team who are nationally and internationally recognised - they have contributed to key text books and achieved awards for their excellence in learning and teaching.

Combining musical knowledge with expertise in music technology can open up many opportunities. On this course, you'll record, program and produce music, developing skills across a range of musical styles and contexts.

You'll be able to specialise in programming or performing, audio post-production, live sound, experimental music, broadcasting and music in education. You'll also explore the evolution of music technology, from historical production to cutting-edge modern techniques. To prepare you for a career in the music industry, you'll undertake a work placement.

Kingston's extensive facilities include recording studios, rehearsal rooms, Pro Tools, Ableton and Logic-based MIDI/editing suites, synth labs, and our analogue/hybrid Visconti Studio.

This Composing for Film and Television course is designed for composers aspiring to work in the media industry and wanting to learn more about techniques for composing and producing music for film and TV. You will learn from experienced composers working across a variety of different media and styles. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with student filmmakers and animators from other courses.

You'll produce and record music in our fantastic, unique facilities. In partnership with world-famous record producer Tony Visconti, the British Library and Science Museum, the Visconti Studio comprises of a 300m² octagonal live room stocked with rare and vintage recording equipment.