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Gain Unparalleled Depth To Transform Marketing

Impact business at its core with the expertise of a top-ranked marketing MBA.

5
in the U.S. for Best Marketing MBA
Princeton Review, 2023
6
public Marketing MBA
U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024

Three Ways To Specialize Your Marketing MBA

Discover the Wisconsin Difference

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Marketing Careers
Sarah Jones (MBA ’06)
Industry Connections
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Experiential Learning

The advantage of the Marketing MBA career pathways

Focus your education to achieve your specific goals. Hear from marketing students about the advantages of Wisconsin’s specialized marketing pathways.

Make industry connections

Connect with a network of marketing professionals invested in helping you grow. Hear from staff and alumni on how Wisconsin’s unique structure will set you up for success.

Experience hands-on learning with top companies

Participate in applied learning opportunities with leaders from top companies. Hear how Wisconsin’s emphasis on experiential learning will prepare you to take on real-life marketing challenges.

Wisconsin's True Differentiator

A general management curriculum provides a strong business foundation for career versatility.

Specialization gives you a deep dive into marketing through courses, applied learning, and internship experience.

Career pathways allow you to build your expertise in a specific area of marketing, giving you a further competitive advantage.

Benefit From a Pipeline to Top Employers

90
accepted offers within three months of graduation
162,509
average total compensation
35,870
average signing bonus
100
received signing bonus
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Unique Curriculum Depth

Wisconsin offers unique flexibility and depth in one MBA. Start with the MBA general management curriculum and a specialized Marketing MBA core. Where other MBAs end here, at Wisconsin you have the opportunity to explore different career paths in your first semester before choosing how to further specialize and customize your marketing expertise – in brand and marketing management; marketing analytics and insights; or technology product marketing.

Marketing MBA Core

(19 credits)

  • Marketing Research
  • Applied Learning: Current Topics in Marketing
  • Marketing Analytics
  • New Product Innovation
  • Marketing in the Digital Age
  • Marketing Consulting Practicum

Brand & Marketing Management

Courses in your chosen career pathway are designed to help you build additional marketing expertise.

  • Strategic Brand Management
  • Marketing Communications
  • Strategic Pricing
  • Applied learning

Marketing Analytics & Insights

Courses in your chosen career pathway are designed to help you build additional marketing expertise.

  • Qualitatively Based Marketing Insights
  • Data Visualization
  • Experiments & Causal Methods
  • Data Technology
  • Applied learning

Technology Product Marketing

Courses in your chosen career pathway are designed to help you build additional marketing expertise.

  • Technology Product Marketing Management (new course)
  • Experiments & Causal Methods
  • Data Technology
  • Applied learning

Electives

(9-10 credits)

  • All WSB classes 700 or above can be taken as electives

Marketing Consulting Practicum

In this class, which is required in each marketing career pathway, you will consult on a project for a company, gaining valuable real-world business knowledge. You are able to:

  • Solve problems a company wants answers to, creating actionable recommendations
  • Practice consulting frameworks
  • Conduct primary research or analyze data to discover insights
  • Develop corporate communication techniques for impact
  • Work directly with marketing professionals at major companies

Global Perspectives

Program trips, both global and domestic, take you to hotbeds of marketing and expose you to different consumer perspectives. Past trips include:

  • Silicon Valley. Visited the offices of LinkedIn, Facebook, and eBay to learn how tech companies manage, interpret, and act upon the huge amounts of data produced in the digital age.
  • China. During a trip to Guangzhou, China, conducted primary research for Dell by interviewing businesses on their technology needs, and saw firsthand how the differences in culture and infrastructure play a role in international business.
  • India. Trip to New Delhi, India. Performed in-home primary ethnographic research to learn a cultural perspective on how Indians snack.

World-Class Faculty

Learn from the best. Our faculty members know marketing—academically and in the real world. They are well connected to industry so you can be as well.

Page Moreau

Page Moreau

Professor, Marketing
John R. Nevin Chair in Marketing

Page Moreau’s research marries marketing, creativity, and business. In one study, she used LEGOs to test the effect on creative thinking when subjects are asked to follow well-defined instructions, which led to more creative thinking and implications for the workplace.

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Ishita Chakraborty

Ishita Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Marketing

Ishita Chakraborty’s research interests are in digital marketing, online platforms, text and video analytics, and mobile apps. Ishita aims to develop algorithmic market research tools to derive richer, more accurate, real-time insights from unstructured data.

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Neeraj Arora

Neeraj Arora

Professor, Marketing
Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. Chair in Marketing Research and Education
Academic Director of the Marketing Leadership Institute

Neeraj Arora’s current research interests include online experimentation, effectiveness of digital advertising, and machine learning tools for marketing analytics. Past research has focused on marketing problems that require statistical models of consumer choice.

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Expert Support and Career Connection

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The Marketing Leadership Institute, a dedicated knowledge center, is backed by industry professionals and is a unique pillar of the Wisconsin MBA. You gain a strong network in your marketing interest and close ties to alumni working in your ideal career path.

Participating industry experts and alumni:

  • Guide curriculum
  • Teach applied learning
  • Contribute to the classroom
  • Mentor students
  • Assist with recruiting and placement

Program Voices

Camille Clark
"The specialization model at Wisconsin was the perfect way to experience and take advantage of large-school opportunities and still get the personalized touch of a curated curriculum and active advisors. To switch careers to marketing, I saw how Wisconsin’s model would accelerate my knowledge in the field and connect me with positions and companies."
Camille Clark (MBA ’18)
Senior Analyst–Corporate Development, American Airlines
Bailey Hackbarth
"The (Marketing Consulting Practicum) not only rounded me out as a marketer, but it’s honed my presentation, analytic, and persuasion skills. With tangible business outcomes (not just case study assessments) hinging on my ability to deliver sound, data-driven recommendations, I’ve relished this opportunity to step outside the classroom and into the business world."
Bailey Hackbarth (MBA ’20)
Associate Brand Manager, General Mills
"I find my job as a Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft particularly appealing due to the ability to see the products through end-to-end. I get to influence product development and product storytelling. I use different skill muscles every day. The industry moves extremely fast so I learn something every day."
Sydney Hung Dowdell (MBA ’15)
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft
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