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What is the Accelerated Master’s Program?
The Graduate College offers exceptional undergraduate Marketing students the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in as few as 5 years. 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!
The primary goal of the program is to provide students with a comprehensive foundation of the principles and practices of marketing and its role in developing and implementing successful business and marketing strategies. The marketing-focused curriculum, offered by renowned and world-class Marketing Department Faculty, provides students with both conceptual frameworks as well as analytical tools to formulate and identify business and marketing problems and opportunities, understand customers and incorporate customer insights to make informed marketing decisions, and design effective marketing plans to improve business performance.
Students graduating from the program are expected to have deep conceptual and analytical skills valued in a wide variety of industry sectors, both nationally and internationally.
Recent graduates have obtained placements in companies such as Accenture, Amazon, Disney, Hexagon Mining, Magna International, NBCUniversal, Raytheon, Sunquest, Uhaul, Target and Wal-Mart. The program also kindled an interest in some outstanding students to pursue doctoral education and an academic career in Marketing. Thus some recent graduates have also joined the PhD Program in Marketing at The University of Arizona and at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Required courses include:
In addition, students choose from a wide array of elective courses:
The Marketing Department in the Eller College of Management strives to generate influential contributions to marketing knowledge and communicate these to students in a way that regenerates this curiosity in a next generation of responsible citizens and marketing professionals. The Marketing Department is committed to achieving this mission by fostering a collaborative environment among scholars, students and marketing professionals in which intellectual curiosity about the behavioral aspects of marketing is a common focus.
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona - Main - Tucson
Through the Graduate Admissions Application you will have the ability to upload various requirements for consideration by the admission committee. Along with the online application and application fee, the following supplemental materials must be submitted:
Required test(s):
TOEFL or IELTS (international students only; School code 4832)
Minimum TOEFL: 85
Minimum IELTS: Composite score of 7, with no subject area below a 7
Fall and Spring admission, decisions are made on a monthly rolling basis.
International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.
4832
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Offered in the Fall:
Offered in the Spring:
Offered only in the Summer:
Maintain 3.0 GPA, on a 4.0 scale
Maintain 3.3 GPA
A minimum of 30 units of coursework completed (12 units required classes, 12 units electives, 6 units of internship/research project)
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.
12 units of electives selected from:
Offered in the Fall:
Offered in the Spring:
Maintain 3.0 GPA, on a 4.0 scale
No Additional Requirments
Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.
This is an Accelerated Master's Program (AMP).
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 is for the top undergraduates in participating majors who plan to continue in a graduate program in the same, or closely related, UA discipline.
Programs will select from among a qualified pool, based on the following criteria. Individual programs may have more stringent or additional requirements: