The MBS Marketing is an intensive one-year taught programme aimed at preparing graduates for marketing and sales careers within organisations. Through our interactions with companies, WIT School of Business has identified a need to provide an innovative and practice-based marketing programme which will prepare graduates for roles in marketing, branding, product development, sales, market research and international sales practice. The course was developed in collaboration with key stakeholders such as the South East branch of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and partner companies from the region including Glanbia and Flahavans. The course addresses a clear need for graduates skilled in the application of specialist marketing techniques. Graduates are equipped with the expertise to trade domestically and internationally, create and execute advertising campaigns, collect and analyse data relating to market opportunities, manage customer relationships, develop and execute digital marketing strategies, and participate in the viability testing and launch of new product concepts.

Staff in the business school have nurtured important relationships with industry and the professional bodies over many years and these companies contact us regularly with employment opportunities. The MBS Marketing is closely aligned to the Waterford Crystal Centre for Marketing Studies, the RIKON research group and TSSG which provides an easily accessible network for our students to be informed on current ideas, thinking and employment opportunities in industry. WIT also has a well-established Careers Centre and website providing support and advice to students. In our recent survey of graduate employment, c.90% of graduates are now in employment in positions such as digital marketing, CRM, brand management, sales, advertising,public relations managers and International sales and marketing development.