Pursuant to consolidation Act 778 of August 7, 2019 on Universities (the University Act), the following is established.
The programme also follows the Examination Policies and Procedures for Aalborg University.
The Master’s programme is organised in accordance with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Order no. 20 of January 9, 2020 on Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes at Universities (the Ministerial Order of the Study Programmes) and Ministerial Order no. 22 of January 9, 2020 on University Examinations (the Examination Order). Further reference is made to Ministerial Order no. 153 of February 26, 2020 (the Admission Order) and Ministerial Order no. 114 of February 3, 2015 (the Grading Scale Order).
The programme is offered in Aalborg.
The Master’s programme falls under Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University.
The Master’s programme falls under Study Board of Economics and Business Administration.
The Master’s programme is associated with the external examiners corps on External Examiners Corps on Business Administration.
Applicants with a legal right of admission (retskrav):
Applicants without legal right of admission:
Applicants are being evaluated and prioritized individually based on their concrete and unique situation.
The Master’s programme entitles the graduate to the Danish designation Kandidatuddannelsen i erhvervsøkonomi, cand.merc. (marketing). The English designation is: Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing).
The Master’s programme is a two-year, research-based, full-time study programme. The programme is set to 120 ECTS credits.
The Study Board can approve that passed programme elements from other educational programmes at the same level replaces programme elements within this programme (credit transfer).
Furthermore, the Study Board can, upon application, approve that parts of this programme is completed at another university or a further education institution in Denmark or abroad (pre-approval of credit transfer).
The Study Board’s decisions regarding credit transfer are based on an academic assessment.
The Study Board’s possibilities to grant exemption, including exemption to further examination attempts and special examination conditions, are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures published at this website: https://www.studyservice.aau.dk/rules
The rules for examinations are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures published at this website: https://www.studyservice.aau.dk/rules
In the assessment of all written work, regardless of the language it is written in, weight is also given to the student's formulation and spelling ability, in addition to the academic content. Orthographic and grammatical correctness as well as stylistic proficiency are taken as a basis for the evaluation of language performance. Language performance must always be included as an independent dimension of the total evaluation. However, no examination can be assessed as ‘Pass’ on the basis of good language performance alone; similarly, an examination normally cannot be assessed as ‘Fail’ on the basis of poor language performance alone.
The Study Board can grant exemption from this in special cases (e.g., dyslexia or a native language other than Danish).
The Master’s Thesis must include an English summary. If the project is written in English, the summary can be in Danish. The summary is included in the evaluation of the project as a whole.
It is assumed that the student can read academic texts in English and use reference works, etc., in English and other European languages.
The following competence profile will appear on the diploma:
A Candidatus graduate has the following competency profile:
A Candidatus graduate has competencies that have been acquired via a course of study that has taken place in a research environment.
A Candidatus graduate is qualified for employment on the labour market based on his or her academic discipline as well as for further research (PhD programmes). A Candidatus graduate has, compared to a Bachelor, developed his or her academic knowledge and independence so as to be able to apply scientific theory and method on an independent basis within both an academic and a professional context.
The purpuse of the Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing) is that the candidate has the following comptence profile after graduation:
Knowledge:
Skills:
Competencies:
The employer can expect that the candidate will be able to:
At the Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing) we put great emphasis on the student's development and learning. These expectations are expressed in the knowledge, skills and competencies the student acquires throughout the programme and in the respective modules.
The program is anchored in a problem-based approach to learning (PBL), where the student’s abilities in identifying, analysing and presenting solutions to actual and concrete business challenges is supported thorugh independent and team-based activities both in courses and project work.
Hence, PBL is an integrated aspect of both projects and course activities, such as lectures, case work, exercises and business cooperation.
The programme values highly interdisciplinary work, teamwork, individual learning, and progression of PBL competencies. A supportive learning environment ensures that the student, alone and in teams, gradually strengthens his or her ability to build and bring together practical and theoretically anchored competences in reflexive ways.
Furthermore, the student manages to argue and transform these competences into concrete solutions.
The programme supports PBL progression by empowering the student’s problem-oriented, interpersonal, structural and reflective skills. The student achieves this by testing and gaining experience with various issues, cooperative relationships, project forms and reflection processes.
The aim is to make sure that the student's curiosity, motivation and interest in the business economics core disciplines within the Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing) have optimum possibilities to be succesful.
During the MSc in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing) the students will acquire deep and comprehensive knowledge about advanced aspects of state-of-the-art sales and marketing theory and concepts. The program is designed around the two core topics of value creation and value capture, with a specific focus on the marketing-sales interface. Creating superior customer value, and capturing part of this value, is the primary goal of marketing and a means of attaining competitive edge. Thus, maximization of customer value is seen as a critical goal for firms. The program will enable students to understand and develop frameworks that explain the underlying process of how superior customer value is created in terms of use value and exchange value and how firms can capture part of this value. This includes understanding of brands, innovation, relationships, communication, and sales.
Upon graduation, students should have a profound and broad understanding of marketing function, including the role of the sales function in creating and executing successful marketing strategies. Thus, future graduates should become a valuable resource to any revenue seeking organization either as next generation marketing and sales executives (CMO, CSO) or in supportive roles within sales, marketing, or business development.
The programme is offered in English.
The programme is based on a combination of professional, problem-oriented and multidisciplinary approaches. It is organised on the following forms of work and evaluation, which combine skills and academic reflection:
The student must at least accumulate 90 ECTS in the chosen MSC Economics and Business Administration programme. The student has the option to choose elective courses for maximum 30 ECTS. The elective courses may be followed in the first, second and/or third semesters.
If, during the third semester, the student wishes to travel abroad to attend a specialisation course or another 30 ECTS course, which has been pre-approved by the Study Board of Economics and Business Administration, the student must follow the elective courses offered within the chosen MSc Economics and Business Administration programme in the first and second semester - or electives from one of the other specialisations, which are considered constituent and are marked with an asterisk in the electives catalogue.
Offered as:
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Specialisation:
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Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation method | Assessment method | Language |
1 Semester
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Fundamental Marketing, Customer Value, Sales Management and Customer Buying Behavior
(KAMAR202015) | Project | 20 | 7-point grading scale | External examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Electives 1st and 3rd semester | 10 | |||||
2 Semester
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Pricing, Sales Metrics and the Marketing Ecosystems
(KAMAR202016) | Project | 20 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Electives 2nd semester | 10 | |||||
3 Semester
1st version
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Business Cooperation
(KAMAR20208) | Project | 15 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Cross-cultural Marketing and Selling
(KAMAR20207) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Research and Practicebased Seminar
(KAMAR20209) | Project | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
3 Semester
2nd version
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Business Cooperation
(KAMAR20208) | Project | 15 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Cross-cultural Marketing and Selling
(KAMAR20207) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Electives 1st and 3rd semester | 10 | |||||
3 Semester
3rd version
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New Venture Creation/Corporate Entrepreneurship
(KAØKS202015) | Project | 30 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
3 Semester
4th version
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Commodity Economics
(KAØKS202016) | Project | 30 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
3 Semester
5th version (innovation and societal challenges)
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Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(KAINB202023) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Innovation and Societal Challenges
(KAINB202021) | Project | 15 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Advanced Innovation Management
(KAINB202022) | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
3 Semester
6th version (1th semester on finance)
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Principles of Finance
(KAFIN20223) | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Quantitative Methods in Finance
(KAFIN20224) | Project | 10 | 7-point grading scale | External examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
Financial Data Analysis
(KAFIN20221) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Portfolio Theory and Financial Applications
(KAFIN20222) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
3 Semester
7th version (1th semester on international business)
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International Business Theory: Trade, Investment and the MNE
(KAINB20221) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
International Entrepreneurship
(KAINB20222) | Project | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
International Strategic Management
(KAINB20223) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
International Business Functions
(KAINB20224) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Semester Project I
(KAINB20225) | Project | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
3 Semester
8th version (business data science)
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Introduction to Data Handling, Exploration & Applied Machine Learning
(KADAT20222) | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam | English |
Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis
(KADAT20223) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam | English |
Data-Driven Business Modelling and Strategy
(KADAT20221) | Project | 15 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Oral exam based on a project | English |
4 Semester
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Master's Thesis
(KAMAR202010) | Project | 30 | 7-point grading scale | External examination | Master's thesis/final project | English |
In addition to the above options, the student will in the third semester have the option to choose “specialisation modules within the academic key areas”. This choice gives the student an opportunity to expand his/her knowledge, abilities and skills within the field of economics and business administration by following the first semester of one of the other MSC in Economics and Business Administration programmes offered by Aalborg University.
Alternatively, the student may attend a semester at a Danish or foreign university. The “specialisation modules” must be pre-approved by the Study Board of Economics and Business Administration and evaluated as specified in the host’s curriculum. The Social Data Science (SDS) semester in the curriculum for the Master's Programme in Economics at Aalborg University is by default preapproved the by The Study Board.
This choice is an opportunity for students who have followed the elective modules offered within their chosen MSc in Economics and Business Administration programmes in the first and second semester. For the Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration (Marketing) these electives are: "Strategic brand management" and "Customer experience management and value co-creation" at the first semester and "Sales enablement" and " Contemporary issues in marketing" at the second semester - or electives from one of the other specialisations, which are considered constituent and are marked with an asterisk in the electives catalogue.
Electives 1st and 3rd semester | ||||||
Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation Method | Assessment method | Language |
Strategic Brand Management
(KAMAR202011) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Customer Experience Management and Value Co-creation
(KAMAR202012) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Sustainability in Organisations
(KAORS20209) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written and oral exam | English |
Business Design
(KAORS202014) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Active participation/continuous evaluation | English |
Financial Accounting
(KAØKS20204) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Accounting Information Systems
(KAØKS20205) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Portfolio Theory and Financial Applications
(KAFIN20203) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
International Finance
(KAFIN20204) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Internationalisation of Diverse Organisational Forms
(KAINB202013) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
MNCs and Ecosystems: Innovation and Value Co-creation for Sustainable Development
(KAINB202014) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Advanced Innovation Management
(KAINB202022) | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Causal Design for Decision Making in Business
(KAORS20229) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Advanced Innovation Management
(KAISC20224) | Course | 10 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Intrapreneurship - intro course across studies
(KAMERC20231) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Oral exam | Danish and English |
Electives 2nd semester | ||||||
Module name | Course type | ECTS | Applied grading scale | Evaluation Method | Assessment method | Language |
Sales Enablement
(KAMAR202013) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Oral exam | English |
Contemporary Issues in Marketing
(KAMAR202014) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Strategic Management
(KAORS202012) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written and oral exam | English |
Technology Literacy and Digitalisation in Organisations
(KAORS202011) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Performance Measurement and Rewarding
(KAØKS202010) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Mergers and Acquisitions
(KAFIN20208) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Topics in Asset Management
(KAFIN20209) | Course | 5 | Passed/Not Passed | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Internationalisation in Emerging Product and Geographic Markets
(KAINB202016) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written exam | English |
Global Environmental Dynamics and Firm Responses
(KAINB202015) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(KAINB202023) | Course | 5 | 7-point grading scale | Internal examination | Written or oral exam | English |
Prior to each registration period, the Study Board informs the students about which electives from the curriculum that will be offered in the coming semester.
The Study Board reserve the right not to provide elective subjects if the number of students signed up do not meet the minimum requirements. If an elective course is not provided, the students will be offered other options.
For further information please visit the programmes website: https://www.aau.dk/uddannelser/kandidat/erhvervsoekonomi/specialiseringer/international-marketing/
Regulations regarding written products are to be found here: https://www.business.aau.dk/education/students/
Regulations regarding the master thesis are to be found here: https://www.studieservice.aau.dk/regler-vejledninger/#515770
The curriculum is approved by the Dean and enters into force as of 1 September 2020.
The Study Board does not offer teaching following the previous curriculum from 2016 after the summer examination 2021.
The Study Board will offer examinations following the previous curriculum, if there are students who have used examination attempts in a module but have failet to pass. The number of examination attempts follows the rules in the Examination Order.
The Vice-dean has on October 28, 2020, approved af revision of the 4 SDS-modules on 3rd Semester valid as of September 2021.
The Vice-dean has on November 18, 2020 approved the following changes valid as of spring 2021:
The Vice-dean has on December 9, 2020, approved a prerequisite for participation in the Master's Thesis valid as of spring 2021.
The Vice-dean has on January 19, 2022, approved to change the module "Contemporay Issues" with "Promoting Innovation" valid as of September 2022.
The Vice-dean has on January 19, 2022, approved to change the type of exam and the assessment of the elective course "Business Design" valid as of September 2022.
The Vice-dean has on March 16, 2022, approved to offer the following electives valid as of autumn 2022:
The Vice-dean has on June 7, 2022, approved to change the Social Data Science semester to a Business Data Science semester valid as of autumn 2022.
The Vice-dean has on June 7, 2022, approved that 1. semester of the 2022-cand.merc. specialisations are offered on 3rd semester as of autumn 2022.
The Vice-dean has on November 29, 2022, approved to offer the following electives valid as of autumn 2023: