Bachelor of Arts - Business and Marketing (Honours) (with placement year)

This four-year sandwich variant threads a paid marketing or commercial placement between the taught levels of the Business and Marketing degree. The syllabus matches the standard route — management spine plus the marketing track through consumer behaviour, digital, branding and communications — while the placement year turns coursework concepts into shipped campaigns, measured results and a contact book inside a working marketing department.

Marketing placements span in-house teams at retailers and manufacturers, agencies handling multiple client accounts, and the marketing functions of public bodies; each teaches a different rhythm, and the faculty’s placement office briefs students on the trade-offs during the year-two application season. Returning students typically carry a portfolio of live work into final-year modules, and hosts frequently commission the capstone project.

The export records this sandwich variant with January 2027 and 2028 windows alongside the September cycles — flexibility its non-placement sibling does not list — and the four-year structure at the standard £16,800 taught-year fee. Placement-seeking marketing students should note the faculty’s vacancy board skews brand-side while agency seats are usually found through direct application, a split worth planning for before the year-two search season opens.

The counselling angle: in a field where every applicant claims creativity, the sandwich student is the one who can show a campaign that ran — that concreteness, more than anything taught in class, is what converts to offers in a crowded junior market. Completion around 2030 sits under the 18-month Graduate Route allowance applying to post-2026 applications, taught-route visas exclude dependants, and the placement year itself is normally paid at £17,000–£20,000 pro rata, substantially covering its own costs.