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An exciting career

awaits you.
As one of the largest academic departments on campus, the School of Marketing and International Business is home to experienced and dedicated professors with reputations for scholarship and teaching excellence. 
Marketing is often considered one of the best training grounds leading to the top level of corporations. Most company employees are engaged in marketing functions in one way or another. Marketing positions offer significant responsibilities and tremendous opportunities to interact professionally with other people.
The international business degree, often combined with another business major, helps prepare students for universal positions with domestic companies who carry out business within this sector.

Department initiatives

Center for Sales and Service Excellence

Committed to a professional approach to sales and service excellence, the center provides education for students pursuing careers in sales and account management or any student interested in sales, leadership and customer retention skills.

CSSE

Lead Riders

Each year, the school acknowledges the importance of our seniors’ achievements by celebrating our students who have been selected by the faculty as outstanding marketing and international business students.

Meet the Lead Riders

Research

Research is foundational to the understanding of marketing. Our faculty is well versed in studies on managerial behavior, consumer/customer behavior and public policy/social marketing. Our faculty has a wide breadth of experience and knowledge in marketing theory and practice.

Faculty research Qualtrics Behavioral lab WRDS

Student resources

Students can apply for scholarships and internships to help reach their academic goals.

Scholarships Internships

Alumni

Our successful alumni are dedicated to giving back to the school and mentoring current students to shape the future generations of SMIB graduates.

The Marketing Academy at Spears

Industry Immersion experiences

Students can participate in domestic trips to explore their interests around the nation!

Summer in Chicago & Milwaukee with Sports Marketing

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