Master's in Marketing Accelerated Program
The Graduate College offers exceptional undergraduate students in selected majors the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in as few as 5 years.
The Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) in MSM in Marketing is for the top Marketing major undergraduates who plan to continue in a graduate program in the same discipline. Student will start taking graduate level courses during their senior year at Eller and those graduate courses will count for both their undergraduate degree and their graduate degree at the cost of undergraduate tuition!
| First Year | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| First Semester | |
| ENGL 101* First Year Composition | 3 |
| MIS 111* Computers and Internetworked Society | 3 |
| MIS 111L* Computers and Internetworked Society Lab | 1 |
| MATH 109C or 112 College Algebra Concepts and Applications | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| Total | 16 |
| Second Semester | |
| ENGL 102* First Year Composition | 3 |
| MATH 116* Calculus Concepts for Business Majors | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| BNAD 100 Language and Context of Business | 1 |
| Total | 16 |
| Sophomore Year | |
| First Semester | |
| MGMT 276/BNAD 276* Statistical Inference in Management | 3 |
| ACCT 200* Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ECON 200* Basic Economic Issues | 3 |
| Tier I General Education | 3 |
| Tier II General Education or Ethics** | 3 |
| BNAD 200 Career Management in Business | 1 |
| Total | 16 |
| Second Semester | |
| ACCT 210* Introduction to Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BNAD 277* Analytical Methods for Business | 4 |
| Tier II General Education | 3 |
| Tier II General Education | 3 |
| Tier II General Education or Ethics** | 3 |
| Total | 16 |
| Junior Year | |
| First Semester | |
| MGMT 310A Organization Behavior and Management | 3 |
| MKTG 361 Introduction to Marketing | 3 |
| BCOM 314R† Business Communication | 3 |
| FIN 311 Introduction to Finance | 3 |
| MKTG 376 Marketing Analytics | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Second Semester | |
| MIS 304 Using and Managing Information Systems | 3 |
| MIS 373 Basic Operations Management | 3 |
| ECON 300 Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions | 3 |
| MKTG 440 Marketing Research | 3 |
| MKTG Major Course | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Senior Year | |
| First Semester | |
| MGMT 402 Integrating Business Fundamentals with Ethics and Law in Management | 3 |
| ECON 330 Macroeconomic Institutions and Policy | 3 |
| MKTG 450 Buyer Behavior | 3 |
| MKTG 510 Marketing-Based Management | 2 |
| MKTG 572 Marketing Research for Managers | 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Second Semester | |
| MKTG 471 Marketing Policies and Operations | 3 |
| MKTG 559 Product Strategy | 3 |
| MKTG 560 International Marketing | 3 |
| Non-Eller Minor or Non-Eller Electives | 7 |
| Total | 13 |
| First Graduate Semester Fall | |
| MTKG 530 Management of Marketing Communications | 3 |
| MKTG 542 Relationship Marketing | 3 |
| MKTG 5XX Brand Management | 3 |
| Total | 9 |
| Second Graduate Semester Spring | |
| MKTG 555 Marketing Strategy | 3 |
| MKTG 556 Pricing Strategy and Tactics | 3 |
| MKTG 531 Introduction to Social Media Marketing | 2 |
| Total | 8 |
| Third Graduate Semester Summer | |
| Master's Project | 6 |
Admissions Requirements
1. Completion of a minimum of 75 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of application; a minimum of 90 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of entry into the AMP. If the student’s GPA falls below 3.3 at the time they have completed 90 units, the student will not be admitted into the program. Courses taken for audit may not be included in the total number of units counted for eligibility or admission.
2. A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3 on a minimum of 12 units of undergraduate UA.
3. Completion of at least 12 earned undergraduate credits in their major at The University of Arizona’s main campus. Units still graded Incomplete, units graded Pass/Fail or units taken as audit will not count toward the requirement of the 12 undergraduate units.
4. Completion or near completion of general education requirements.
5. Submission of a graduate application and payment of a graduate application fee.
6. Demonstration of the maturity necessary for success in an accelerated, highly competitive program.
7. Expectation to complete the undergraduate degree within four years. The undergraduate degree requirements must be completed before the student is eligible to have the Master’s degree awarded