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The marketing major provides a solid understanding of business activities under the marketing umbrella-from the identification and selection of target markets, to the development, pricing, placement and promotion of goods and services, and the management of relationships among business partners and their customers. Students receive a broad foundation in marketing concepts and practices and opportunities to pursue greater understanding and skills in selected areas of the discipline including sales, advertising, distribution and logistics, and international marketing. Graduates are able to understand consumer behavior, calculate retail pricing on both cost and profit based approaches, interpret the language of marketing research, and analyze a company's marketing strategy in order to recognize appropriate and inappropriate marketing alternatives.

• Students entering FIU as freshman or as a transfer student with less than 30 credits will need to meet the general admission criteria. Click here for the details http://admissions.fiu.edu/apply/freshman/
• Minimum GPA of 2.5 for all lower division courses and upper division non-business courses (including transfer coursework)
• For continuing FIU and transfer students the GPA earned for ALL business pre-core courses must be 2.5

ACG 2021 Accounting for Decision
ACG 3301 Accounting for Planning and Control
CGS 2100 Introduction to Microcomputer Applications for Business or CGS 2060 Introduction to Microcomputers
ECO 2013 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 2023 Principles of Microeconomics
STA 2023 Statistics for Business and Economics
MAC 2233 Calculus for Business
• Completion of either (a) all UCC requirements and 60 lower division credits, or (b) an Associate of Arts (AA) from a Florida accredited institution.
• All transfer students must also complete the Math Placement Assessment for Incoming Students. The results from that assessment are utilized to guide students for placement in appropriate mathematics courses.
• For transfer students who have not successfully completed college-level mathematics courses, results determine appropriate mathematics enrollment. Students transferring in college-level mathematics courses should use their results to assess (a) readiness for remaining mathematics courses and (b) readiness for upper-division Business Core Courses in finance and quantitative methods.

Related Occupations:

• Advertising and Promotions Managers
• Sales Managers
• Public Relations and Fundraising Managers
• Purchasing Managers
• Human Resources Managers
• Training and Development Managers
• Management Analysts
• Training and Development Specialists
• Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
• Public Relations Specialists

Wages & Employment Trends for Marketing Managers:

Source and more information: http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-2021.00

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