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What you will study

Over the four years of your Events Marketing and Management degree at UCM, you鈥檒l progress from learning the basics of organizational management to using your skills to run real events. Our experiential approach to learning engages you with coursework in accounting, statistics, economics and marketing. Graduate ready to be an effective events marketing manager in the industry of your choice.

Benefit from our faculty鈥檚 professional expertise and academic research in content areas such as organizational and crisis communication, negotiation, leadership, etiquette training and more. Lean on their mentorship and industry insight to gain a competitive edge with your UCM Events Marketing and Management degree.

The 欧美视频鈥檚 bachelor鈥檚 degree in Events Marketing and Management offers a powerful core of engaging academics, including:

• Management Information Systems: As an events marketing manager, your role may often include decision-making about your organization鈥檚 information systems and technology. Use hands-on applications and case studies to learn how to align end-user needs with company resources. 
• Integrated Strategic Communication: Explore how integrating traditionally separate marketing tactics, such as public relations and internet advertising, can maximize an organization鈥檚 strategic communication and promotion.
• Organizational Policy and Strategy: Apply conceptual, communication, interpersonal and technical skills to strategic management in a team learning environment.

 

 

Unique learning opportunities in events marketing and management

For Events Marketing and Management majors at the 欧美视频, the entire community is your classroom. Experience working with real events is the best way to answer the question, 鈥淲hat is events marketing and management?鈥�. While earning your Events Marketing and Management degree, you鈥檒l regularly attend and assist with off-campus events. Additionally, you鈥檒l get your first taste of being an event marketing manager with these core experiences:

• Internship: A paid internship with a specific events marketing and management focus will build your experience and professionalism. Past internships have included roles at the KC Royals, KC Monarchs, Starlight wedding venue and the Chamber of Commerce for St. Louis.
• Integrative Business Experience (IBE): In your junior year, you and your fellow Events Marketing and Management majors will build and run a one-semester business. Your team will choose a nonprofit, execute a project on their behalf and donate the proceeds to them. Beneficiaries have included Survival House, Big Brother/Big Sister and Missouri Veterans Home.
• Advanced Events Management: Experience what it鈥檚 like to be a professional events marketing manager. Gain insight into the full life cycle of an event when you plan, budget, market, staff, execute and assess one for a client in the community.
• Mentorship: Students enrolled in the Advanced Events Management course will become student members of the Kansas City Chapter of Meeting Professionals International. Through this membership, students will be assigned a mentor who is an events professional in the Kansas City area and will have countless opportunities for networking and professional development.

What can you do with a bachelor鈥檚 in Events Marketing and Management from UCM?

An Events Marketing and Management degree from the 欧美视频 prepares you to become an events marketing manager in whatever field most excites you. Our Events Marketing and Management program has strong connections throughout the Warrensburg and Kansas City areas to help you get started. Make the most of those connections by working with your internship coordinator, career development coordinator and dedicated faculty advisor.

Our focus on experiential, hands-on learning ensures you graduate with working knowledge of the events industry and the skills to succeed in event management jobs. A UCM bachelor鈥檚 degree in Events Marketing and Management is more than a credential. It鈥檚 an ideal way to build a strong network for future support, with small class sizes and faculty who care about your personal success. 

This supportive network and our student-centered learning will ensure that you graduate with the confidence and practical experience you need to excel in your events marketing and management career.

Careers for an events marketing manager

Graduates with an Events Marketing and Management degree from UCM have many excellent job opportunities in a variety of fields. Explore data and trends for events marketing manager jobs using our interactive tool below.

 

 

Financial assistance options for your Events Marketing and Management degree

The 欧美视频 is committed to minimizing student debt. By keeping tuition fees low, offering robust financial aid and imparting practical job skills along with a high-quality education, we help our students achieve solid financial footing for their lives ahead.

Becoming an events marketing manager is a career path with strong job opportunities and compensation. Together with UCM鈥檚 low tuition fees, your Events Marketing and Management degree is a smart investment. We offer many financial aid options to help you finance your college education. 

In addition to university-wide resources, students in our Events Marketing and Management degree program may be eligible for additional funds. The UCM Scholarship Finder can help connect you with program-specific opportunities.