Master of Business Administration with a Specialization in Marketing Online

Grow brands – and your career – with digital marketing, consumer behavior, and strategic marketing management tools.

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Start class: 1/13/25
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Program Overview

Look into our MBA with a Specialization in Marketing online program

Combine proven marketing expertise and core business principles with the Texas State University MBA with a Specialization in Marketing. This 100% online program, part of the McCoy College of Business, features specialized courses in digital marketing, consumer behavior, and strategic marketing management.

Use data analytics and consumer insights to develop comprehensive marketing strategies to help brands flourish and become a more effective business leader. Add global marketing, digital marketing, analytical, and communication capabilities to your skillset. Led by a faculty of accessible and experienced industry experts, this AACSB-accredited MBA program is offered in a flexible format designed specifically for working professionals.

As a student of this MBA in Marketing online program, you will learn how to:

  • Analyze complex business problems and make data-driven marketing decisions
  • Create and implement marketing strategies that align with business objectives
  • Enhance both written and verbal communication skills tailored for marketing contexts, including presentations and reports
  • Acquire skills in digital marketing, including social media, SEO, and online advertising
  • Understand and predict consumer behavior to tailor marketing strategies effectively
  • Develop and manage marketing strategies in a global context, addressing international market dynamics
  • Cultivate leadership skills and the ability to work effectively in teams
  • Analyze complex business problems and make data-driven marketing decisions
  • Create and implement marketing strategies that align with business objectives
  • Enhance both written and verbal communication skills tailored for marketing contexts, including presentations and reports
  • Acquire skills in digital marketing, including social media, SEO, and online advertising
  • Understand and predict consumer behavior to tailor marketing strategies effectively
  • Develop and manage marketing strategies in a global context, addressing international market dynamics
  • Cultivate leadership skills and the ability to work effectively in teams

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Total Tuition $25,311*
Duration As few as 16 months
Credit Hours 39

Accreditation

aacsb accredited

The McCoy College of Business at Texas State University is an accredited member of AACSB International. For more than a century, AACSB accreditation has been synonymous with the highest standards in business education. McCoy College's Department of Accounting also holds an additional AACSB accreditation. Fewer than 200 universities worldwide earn AACSB accreditations in both business and accounting.

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Tuition

The tuition for our online MBA in Marketing is affordable

Tuition for the MBA with a Specialization in Marketing online program is affordable and paid by the course, so you can achieve your academic goals while remaining within your budget.

Tuition breakdown

Total Tuition $25,311*
Per Credit Hour $649

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Calendar

When to apply, when classes begin

The Texas State MBA with a Specialization in Marketing is delivered in a convenient online learning format that offers maximum flexibility for working adults like you. Choose the start date that fits your goals.

TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Spring 1 20251/13/2512/30/241/6/251/13/251/13/253/3/258 weeks
Spring 2 20253/4/252/18/252/25/253/4/253/4/255/7/258 weeks

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Apply by 12/30/24
Start Class 1/13/25

Admissions

Here are admission requirements for this marketing MBA

Apply to the online MBA with a Specialization in Marketing program quickly and easily with our streamlined admission process. Review the admission requirements below and take the next step toward your professional goals.


To be eligible to earn your MBA with a Specialization in Marketing online from Texas State University, you must have the following:

  • Two years or more of professional business experience
  • Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
  • Completed online application
  • $55 non-refundable application fee
  • Official transcripts from each institution where course credit was granted
  • Resume/CV outlining education, professional and technical achievements, scholarships/grants, publications/presentations, other accomplishments
  • Statement of purpose outlining the applicant’s interest in the program and a description of the applicant’s three most significant accomplishments
  • Two letters of recommendation from sources able to assess the student’s ability to succeed in graduate school
    • GPA and GMAT/GRE Requirement:
    • GMAT/GRE not required for applicants with a GPA of 3.5 or higher
    • For applicants with GPA below 3.5, official GMAT or GRE (general test only) with competitive scores will be required for consideration
  • Approved English proficiency exam score:
    • Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.
    • Official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall and minimum individual module scores of
      • 19 listening
      • 19 reading
      • 19 speaking
      • 18 writing
    • Official PTE scores required with a 52 overall
    • Official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and minimum individual module scores of 6.0
    • Official Duolingo scores required with a 110 overall
    • Official TOEFL Essentials scores required with an 8.5 overall

    You have the opportunity to upload copies of your official transcripts during the application process (not print-outs, grade reports, advising transcripts or transcripts stamped "unofficial"). You can accomplish this by ordering or requesting your official transcripts from your university registrar, opening the documents, and scanning them into one PDF file. Please follow the instructions below when uploading your documents:

    • Redact your social security number every time it appears, but do not make additional alterations
    • Include front pages and back pages as well as the transcript legend
    • Combine multiple pages and/or multiple transcripts into one PDF
    • Arrange all pages in the correct order
    • Remove any encryption/password protections

    Electronic transcripts can be sent to Texas State University graduate admissions at [email protected].

    Official transcripts can be mailed to:

    Texas State University
    Graduate Admissions
    429 N. Guadalupe St.
    San Marcos, TX 78666-4684

Admission Requirements

  • Minimum 2.75 GPA
  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university
  • Resume detailing professional experience

Courses

Take a peek at the curriculum for this marketing MBA program

To graduate from the MBA in Marketing online degree program, you must complete a total of 39 credit hours, including 30 credit hours of core courses and nine credit hours of elective courses.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to provide an integrative understanding of the firm. A variety of organizational models and perspectives will be incorporated to facilitate understanding of the complexities of the firm, its environments, and its relationships with stakeholders. Includes focus on case analysis issues and communication skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides the quantitative foundation for business analysis and decision making. Topics include inferential statistics, regression analysis, and other analytical/modeling techniques with wide applicability in decision-making and problem solving in all functional areas of business.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to the major considerations in financial decision making. These considerations are analyzed by exploring the role of financial managers in creating value and maximizing shareholder wealth within the constraints of legal and ethical behavior. The development of critical thinking, quantitative applications, and analytical skills are major goals of this course because the topics require knowledge of specialized problem-solving techniques. 
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Organizational behavior and structure as influenced by environmental variables and system relationships
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces the processes and strategies to create, produce, and deliver goods and services that drive organizations' overall success. It will highlight operational and tactical problems organizations typically confront and introduce the concepts and analytical tools (both process and systems based) used to deal with these problems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the planning and coordination of marketing functions, marketing policies, and the analysis of marketing administration.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Use of accounting information for improving managerial decision making. Emphasis is on understanding the practice of business management, budgeting, cost behavior, and operational, internal, and management control. 
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The application of economic theory and analysis to the formulation of business policy, including demand analysis, production theory, linear programming, and pricing policy
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to contribute to the development of the business professional. Academic content is supplemented by training in soft skill topics to better prepare the students for a successful business career. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An integrative approach to policy formulation and administration (decision making) to achieve organization objectives. Should be taken the last semester of student’s MBA program

Students must take the following courses: 

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a study of the scientific approach that connects customer data and competitive information to drive marketing decision-making. The course explores customer data analysis techniques and their theoretical foundations that are applied to real world business problems. Students will learn software, conduct data analysis and communicate the results.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An advanced study of the marketing research process to include problem formulation, determination of sources of information and research design, design of data collection forms, design of the sample, collection of the data, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation of the research report, and oral presentation of the research findings
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines marketing strategies in the digital environment. It examines the latest technology and analytical tools used in e-marketing and e-commerce, including online advertising, mobile marketing, social media marketing, search marketing, email marketing, and web analytics.

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