Marketing

Career Description
Do you desire exciting career opportunities?
...an opportunity to contribute to society?
...unlimited professional growth and improved
  "life" skills?

The marketing profession can fulfill these dreams through its many career options and, as in most occupations today, the better marketing positions are offered to those with superior skills. This requires specialized education and experience. Marketing-related occupations account for 25-33% of the nation's jobs and history has shown that the demand for effective marketers is not affected by cyclical economic fluctuations.

Marketing careers include those associated with:

- Advertising
- Public Relations
- Finance and Banking
- Insurance
- Real Estate
- Small Business Ownership and Management
- Food Service and Hotel Management
- Retail Sales
- Commercial/Industrial Sales

In some positions, people are their own bosses, determine their own working conditions, and create their own earning potential. Customer contact, travel, competition, creativity, and variety are all descriptive of the opportunity in Marketing Careers.

For Your Information
Low Cost

Students registering for less than six units will be charged $6 per unit plus a $7.50 health fee. Students registering for 10 or more units will be charged $60 per semester. Enrollment fees are due at registration. Financial Aid is available.

Eligibility for Admission

To be eligible for admission, the applicant shall be a high school graduate or equivalent, be 18 years of age or older, or a high school student with a concurrent enrollment form filed with Admissions and Records.

Matriculation and Placement Tests

Matriculation, a method of providing first-time college students with information necessary for success, requires new students to be assessed, oriented, and provided with academic advisement prior to registering for classes. Assessment scores are advisory only.

Further information on matriculation and testing requirements may be obtained from the Admissions and Records office.

ADVISORY BOARD

San Jos é City College is proud of its Marketing Advisory Board. Composed of representatives of the business community, the committee assists in identifying curriculum needs, determining course priorities and monitoring the quality of instruction. It is our goal to graduate students with "Marketable" skills.

Members of our Advisory Board include the following businesses:

Crystal Geyser Water Co.
Metro Tel
CYGNET Laboratories
Long's Drug Store
Steel Fence Systems
Security Specialists
Data Circuit Systems
The WILD pair, division of Edison Brothers Stores, Inc.
Arby's, The ALTAMIRA Corporation
Maritz Travel Company

The Program