Degree Courses For Advertising

You do not necessarily need a degree to get into the advertising industry and many get into the business after doing a broader degree such as English or History.

However, being advertising students, we can definately see the benefits of studying advertising. Some courses in particular you will get an idea of the different areas you can go into and which may suit you best and others will give you a focused area. Within our degree we have studies core units such as: Communications and Marketing Research, Media Planning, Account Planning, Branding, Consumer Behaviour, Planning and Budgeting amongst others. This gives you an insight into the different areas of communications and also enables you to have both theory and a practise application. In the final year you can choose areas of focus (e.g. creativity).


You should be aware, that advertising courses do not always focus on creativity, some have a larger focus on the business side to the industry. If you want the drawing/design side it may be better to look into arts courses and do a foundation year in art. Nevertheless, knowing about the different areas can only benefit you in the future.

For a list of advertising courses look on Hot Courses: http://www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/Advertising-Undergraduate-Courses-In-England-p2/hc2_search_result.page_pls_user_sresults_col/16180339/220704/s/858889440/p/2/p_zoom_level/11/page.htm

Remeber to look at the focus of each course!!!