MBA in Marketing: Marketing Analytics and Insights
Learn research methods to discover consumer behavior insights and guide business decisions.
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Capture, analyze and apply consumer insights to shape future business strategy. Hear from Jessica Viesselman (MBA ’07), consumer insights manager at American Family Insurance, on how the skills and experience you gain through this specialization will empower you to add value to your workplace from day one.
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Marketing Analytics and Insights Careers
Make an immediate impact as a data-driven leader. Be empowered to lead and turn your interest in human behavior into a career.
Common career paths
- Strategic application of consumer insights into marketing strategy
- Consumer insights
- Shopper insights
- Digital marketing analytics
Common job titles
- Associate Global Insights Manager
- Consumer Insight Strategist
- Consumer and Market Knowledge Manager
- Global Consumer Insight Associate
- Senior Associate of Design Research
- Senior Research Analyst
- User Experience Analyst
Gain Marketing Breadth + Deep Expertise to Stand Out
Build a career advantage with the curriculum, industry experiences, and connections of a top-ranked marketing MBA, plus added expertise in marketing analytics and insights.
Applied Learning
Company visits & current topic seminars
SC Johnson. Focus: How to make advertising more effective through marketing analytics and insights techniques such as the use of neuroscience.
Microsoft. Focus: Product marketing strategy and use of competitive response modeling to attract new users to their mobile devices.
Kimberly-Clark. Focus: Behavioral economic approaches to understanding consumer decisions and the keys to using consumer data to measure brand equity.
More applied learning activities
- Interviewing consumers in their homes for product innovation ideation
- Discussion on data sources, privacy and ethics of today’s personalized marketing
- Turning data insights into corporate storytelling
- Evaluating consumer behavior in niche consumer groups
Curriculum
The Wisconsin Full-Time MBA curriculum integrates a strong foundation in general management with highly focused preparation in marketing. With marketing analytics and insights-specific courses, electives, and applied learning opportunities that begin as soon as your first semester, the MBA in Business: Marketing: Marketing Analytics and Insights gives you a competitive edge in your career.
Year 1
First Semester
- MBA Core
- Marketing Research
- Current Topics in Marketing
Second Semester
- MBA Core
- Marketing Analytics
- Qualitative Insights or New Product Innovation
- Current Topics in Marketing
Year 2
First Semester
- Data Technology
- Data Visualization
- Experiments & Causal Methods
- Current Topics in Marketing
- Electives
Second Semester
- Marketing Consulting Practicum
- Qualitative Insights or New Product Innovation
- Marketing in the Digital Age
- Electives
Marketing Leadership Institute
With industry experience and support, Wisconsin goes deeper. A dedicated knowledge center, the Marketing Leadership Institute, is backed by industry professionals and is a unique pillar of the Wisconsin MBA in marketing analytics and insights. You gain a strong network in the field and close ties to alumni working in your ideal career path.
Participating marketing industry experts and alumni:
- Guide curriculum
- Host applied learning
- Contribute to the classroom
- Mentor students
- Assist with recruiting and placement
Advisory Board
Members of the Marketing Leadership Institute’s advisory board have deep ties to industry and consult on curriculum, projects, and networking. See our advisory board members.
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