Highlights
- Build practical skills in marketing analytics, automation, AI-powered content creation and social media management.
- Combine creativity, strategy and consumer insights to deliver integrated marketing communication campaigns.
- Gain practical experience throughout your degree by solving real-world marketing challenges with industry and community partners.
- Understand what drives consumer behaviour and use real-time insights to create more effective marketing strategies.
In this course you will
- Build practical skills in marketing analytics, automation, AI-powered content creation and social media management.
- Combine creativity, strategy and consumer insights to deliver integrated marketing communication campaigns.
- Gain practical experience throughout your degree by solving real-world marketing challenges with industry and community partners.
- Understand what drives consumer behaviour and use real-time insights to create more effective marketing strategies.
Marketing is the craft of connecting people with products, services and ideas. It’s a discipline that blends creativity with strategy and analytics, from building iconic brands, to understanding human behaviour and crafting campaigns that cut through in an omnichannel world. Behind every great brand, from Apple to Coca-Cola, is a marketing strategy built on bold ideas, sharp insights and evidence-based, data-driven decision-making.
In this major you will explore how marketing strategies are designed, delivered and evaluated in today’s digital‑first environment.
What you will learn
From your very first semester, you'll engage in practical, real‑world learning experiences with our industry and community partners, ensuring you graduate with a portfolio showcasing your first‑hand business expertise.
Through core business units, you'll develop a strong foundation in critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, business ethics and professional communication - skills that are in high demand.
In your major, you will:
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Master contemporary marketing concepts, theories and digital technologies, from marketing analytics and automation tools to AI-powered content creation and social media management platforms.
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Gain deep expertise in consumer psychology and behaviour, gathering real-time intelligence and evidence-based insights into what drives your audience.
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Design and deliver integrated marketing communication campaigns that drive engagement, build brands and achieve defined objectives across multiple channels.
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Develop advanced data analytics skills to collect, analyse, interpret and present the data that powers evidence-based decision-making.
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Explore strategic and service marketing, crafting agile strategies and standout customer experiences in a digital-first environment.
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Investigate real-world marketing challenges and apply creative, analytical thinking to develop solutions to genuine problems.
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Practise socially responsible, ethical and sustainable marketing, acting with integrity in an era of data privacy and corporate accountability.
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Engage with industry partners and collaborate in digitally enabled teams, applying your skills in authentic professional contexts.
In addition, our WIL program offers internship opportunities with leading organisations, helping you build valuable professional networks and gain practical industry experience.
Is this major for you?
This major is for creative problem-solvers and data-driven thinkers who are curious about how brands are built, fascinated by what drives human behaviour and energised by the challenge of influencing it. If you’re strategic, analytical and innovative, love generating big ideas and want to shape the way people think, feel and act, marketing could be the major for you.
Careers and outcomes
Build a versatile marketing career across industries, agencies, government and organisations of all sizes.
Possible careers
- Brand manager
- Consumer insights manager
- Digital marketing specialist
- Marketing analytics manager
- Marketing consultant
- Marketing strategist
- Product manager
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2027 fees
2027: Fee available from October
2027 fees
2027: $46,800 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2026 fees
2026: CSP $17,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2026 fees
2026: $45,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
QUT Excellence Scholarship (Academic)
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding academic achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Faculty of Business and Law Excellence Scholarship
A scholarship for future undergraduate students who want to study business, property economics or law.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Laurie Cowled Indigenous Australian Scholarship for Business Students
A scholarship for future and current Indigenous female students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate studies in business.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Indigenous Australian; Struggling financially; Women
Equity scholarships scheme
A scholarship for low-income students studying in any faculty.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Struggling financially
QUT Elite Sport Scholarship
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding sporting achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Sporting excellence
International Merit Scholarship
A high achievement scholarship for future international undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
QUT Budding Entrepreneur Scholarship
A scholarship for innovative individuals who are engaged in their passion for entrepreneurial action.
- Scholarship eligibility
International Talent Scholarship
A new scholarship for 2026 that covers tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance