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Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and Data Strategy
In the Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and Data Strategy at Universidad Panamericana Guadalajara we train professionals who are experts in the use of marketing techniques and tools to create and commercialize products, services and experiences that generate value for the consumer.
Our program develops analytical and creative skills in our students, enabling them to live in the real world of marketing and business throughout their university career, with a human and sustainable approach. We seek to combine the pillars of marketing with a solid management foundation, providing a managerial vision to develop comprehensive strategies.
Main Certifications
This program has the following certifications:
CACECA
Consejo de Acreditación de Ciencias Administrativas, Contables y Afines is the most recognized agency specialized in the Economic-Administrative area worldwide. In its more than 24 years of experience, it has accredited more than 2,000 academic programs, and has consolidated valuable alliances and partnerships with organizations that share the interest of improving the quality of education in Mexico.
ASPROMER
It is an association created by and exclusively for undergraduate and graduate marketing programs throughout Colombia; the programs themselves are the members, and their directors serve as representatives to the association.
With clear and well-defined objectives to promote the sound development of the discipline of marketing at the academic level and, likewise, to enhance the profession’s relevance in the job market.
Marketing and Data Strategy Degree Locations
- Mexico City
- Guadalajara
- Aguascalientes
- Panamericana City
RVOE
Bachelor's degree program with recognition of official validity of studies (RVOE) from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) number 871474 / 07-Oct-1987 school-based modality.
Admission Profile
The Marketing and Data Strategy degree is for you if:
- You have a strategic vision and a managerial approach
- Your personality is creative and persuasive
- You are connected to trends
- You are passionate about the world behind brands, products, services and experiences.
- It makes it easier for you to work in a team
- You have a focus on results and high analytical skills.
Graduate Profile
A graduate of the Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Data Strategy is able to:
- Develop cost-effective marketing strategies and plans for consumer and industrial products, services and experiences, taking into account all relevant areas of the company.
- Handle different marketing functions, such as: digital marketing, advertising, sales promotion, branding, merchandising, international marketing, among others.
- Timely detection of the needs of all types of markets, transforming information into products, services and experiences with high added value.
- Determining and realizing marketing budgets
- Creating value and sustaining a competitive advantage within a brand
First Semester
- History of Culture
- Writing and Speaking Workshop
- Strategic Management
- Financial Accounting
- Introduction to Law
- Fundamentals of Calculus
- Marketing Fundamentals
- Marketing Workshop
Second Semester
- Person and Society
- Business Administration
- Control of Financial Information
- Human Resources Management
- Financial Mathematics
- Differential and Integral Calculus
- Fundamentals of International Business
Third semester
- Ethics
- Research Workshop
- Cost Analysis
- Commercial Law
- Introduction to Economic Science
- Financial Analysis
- Matrix Algebra
- New Product Development and Innovation
Fourth semester
- Theological Anthropology I
- Budgets
- Labor Law Regulations
- Microeconomics
- Technological tools for information management
- Probability and Descriptive Statistics
- Development of Personal Competencies
- Consumer Psychology
Fifth semester
- Theological Anthropology II
- Macroeconomics
- Corporate Finance
- Inferential Statistics
- Business Creativity
- Business Internationalization
- Consumer Behaviour
- Qualitative Market Research
Sixth semester
- Social Philosophy
- Operations Research
- Entrepreneurs
- Development of Management Competencies and Professional Practice
- Financial Evaluation of Investment Projects
- Information Technology
- Quantitative Market Research
- Strategic Product and Price Management
Seventh semester
- Man and the Contemporary World
- Operations Management
- Integral Company System
- Strategic Sales Management
- Distribution Channel Strategy
- Elective I
- Elective II
Eighth semester
- Professional Ethics
- Management Action Analysis
- Business Analytics Models
- Strategic advertising, media planning and creativity
- Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing
- Elective III
- Elective IV
Ninth Semester
- Strategic Simulation
- Advanced Data Analysis
- Strategic Marketing Plan
- Applied Marketing Seminar
- Point-of-Purchase Marketing
- Elective V
- Elective VI
Elective Courses
- Digital Marketing
- Brand Management and Architecture
- Marketing and Sustainability Trends
- Services Marketing
- Relationship Marketing
- Category Management
- Geomarketing
- Intellectual Property
International Exchanges
Claude Bernard in Lyon, France
WHU OTTO Beisheim School of Management, Düsseldorf, Germany
Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. United States
Korea University Business School in Seoul, South Korea
Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain
La Sabana University in Bogotá, Colombia
Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, Spain
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy
Nanyang Business School in Singapore
EM Strasbourg Business School in Strasbourg, France
Catholic University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain
Among many others
We also offer an exclusive program in partnership withLUISS Business School(Rome, Italy), allowing students to pursue a master’s degree at that institution in conjunction with their bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing.
International competitions and events
- International trip toDisney Worldin Orlando andUniversal Studios.
- We participated in the Lazaridis International Case Conference atthe LAZARIDIS School of Business & Economics
- We participated in the FEP International Case Competition at theUniversity of Porto in Portugal.
We have participated in different contests such as:
- Harvard International Consulting Competition (as semifinalists)
- Hong Kong University - HSBC Case Competition (being the only Latin American university)
- Marketing Analytics Summit at Wake Forest University (3rd place winners)
Internships
International summer internships:
- The Walt Disney Company– Internship in Services Marketing and Merchandising
Forms of Qualification
- Thesis
- Case Study
- Professional Experience Report
- Postgraduate
- General Knowledge Test (CENEVAL, IEB, AFI, AMIB, among others)
- Academic Performance
- Zero Titration

"Thanks to my degree in marketing, I understood both the local and global business landscape, and I learned to understand every situation with a humanistic and value-based approach".
Juan Manuel Martínez, class of 2004-2009, Guadalajara campus.
