Create, Engage and Lead with Expertise in Marketing from Gannon University
Marketing means creating, communicating and delivering value to customers. With Gannon’s marketing concentration, you’ll help organizations discover unmet customer needs and wants, and develop products and services to satisfy those needs. You will also use advertising, promotion, pricing, distribution, personal selling and customer relationship management techniques to build strong brands that attract and retain customers in this dynamic career field.
- Learn from faculty experts who hold extensive professional and academic experience.
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Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.- Receive individualized instruction and meaningful student-faculty interaction through small class sizes.
Learn to Lead the Way in Marketing
- Understand your customers and how to connect them to a product or service through effective product development, branding, promotion, pricing, distribution, and customer relationship management strategies.
- Explore marketing research, consumer behavior and strategic marketing planning and other variables that contribute to the success or failures of an organization.
- Become a knowledgeable, creative, ethical and innovative marketing professional and leader who is equipped for a successful career in an increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment.
Experience an Exceptional Learning Environment
- The program’s location in the Center for Business Ingenuity gives you valuable local and national internship and service-learning project opportunities through access to the Small Business Development Center, Erie Technology Incubator, and Northwest Pennsylvania Beehive Network.
- Experience an innovative education using state-of-the-art technology.
- Gain hands-on experience on campus and in the community by applying classroom knowledge to real-world marketing initiatives.
Inspire Your Academic Success
Gain practical knowledge through key marketing courses including:
Marketing Research: Understand and apply the procedures an organization uses to collect, tabulate and analyze data about consumer needs and wants.
Strategic Marketing Management: Gain real-world experience in strategic marketing planning by working with organizations to develop a comprehensive marketing plan to improve its operations.
Marketing Communications: Study and apply the processes by which integrated marketing communication programs are planned, developed, executed and measured.
Achieve the Possibilities
Students will gain a high-quality education that enables success in the rigors of graduate school or a future profession. Through an array of program opportunities, you can:
- Secure valuable internship opportunities with local and national corporate organizations, state and local government, or nonprofit, health care, service and manufacturing organizations.
- Join program graduates who have achieved successful careers in diverse organizations including Ford Motor Co., Erie Insurance Co., Wabtec Corp., PNC Bank, Marquette Savings Bank, and more.
- Earn an average median salary of $136,850, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.