Prepare for a career in the exciting, fast-moving world of advertising with UEL's BA (Hons) Advertising degree.This interdisciplinary undergraduate degree offers a combination of approaches to the study and practice of advertising and promotional culture and is informed by the impact of mobile and digital media marketing practices. You will acquire the skills that today's employers need through work-based learning, looking at the wider cultural context and gaining media and digital production skills. You receive extensive instruction in photography, digital and social media, while exploring consumer behaviour, psychology, identity, lifestyle and social experience in media and consumer culture. You also learn valuable real-life skills by undertaking work placements, working to industry briefs and carrying out consumer research. By combining industry experience, media production skills and theory, the advertising degree allows you to develop your full potential, and provides an excellent springboard for a range of careers in the global creative and promotional industries.

And our support doesn’t end when you finish your course. As a UEL graduate you can use the services of the Employability and Enterprise Team after graduation. We can provide information on paid work opportunities and placements, and offer a Skills Academy scheme that includes sessions on essential business skills and internship opportunities to get you on the right path. For those thinking about taking the entrepreneurial route, UEL's business incubation space, Knowledge Dock, offers you the opportunity to start your own business by providing premises, IT support (including computers, printing and phone) and access to entrepreneurs and business advisers in east London.