BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma Marketing
September 2025 start

Unlock your potential in the dynamic and varied world of business and marketing with our Level 3 Extended Diploma in Marketing. This comprehensive two-year program is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in various business and marketing roles in this industry growth area.

Our curriculum covers a wide range of business and marketing principles and practices, ensuring you gain a thorough understanding of the industry. Key topics include:

* Careers in Business and Marketing: Explore the diverse career paths within the industry, including roles in the public, private, and voluntary sectors.
* Marketing Principles: Understand the core activities of marketing, including the importance of research and its application to ensure business success.
* Customer Communication: Learn how important effective customer communication is to the success of the business and create your own interactive communication plans and materials.
* Branding Products and Services: Discover how organisations use branding to achieve their marketing objectives.
* Influencer Marketing: Investigate the growing role of influencers and how to create successful influencer marketing campaigns.

There is one formal exam and the remainder of the assessments are through assignments following real life business briefs with a mixture of report and products being produced.

In the first instance please send a message to Business.studies@boltoncc.ac.uk

Apply via the learner hub!

Upon completion, you will be well-prepared to enter the workforce or pursue higher education in a range of areas including:

Business
Management and Leadership
Digital Marketing
Accounting
Law

Sitting a job interview, writing a personal statement, applying for university - taking part in our enrichment programme will give you a CV to wow in all of these situations! You’ll benefit from departmental and cross-college enrichment with:

• Inspiring trips and experiences
• Meetings with industry experts
• Visits to leading companies in your sector

As well as giving you essential professional and technical skills, you’ll demonstrate that you’re a successful and well-rounded person, helping you to make a lasting impression.

We want you to have fun, so we also have plenty of leisure and sporting activities for you to enjoy, improving your health and wellbeing

You'll have your own Progress Tutor and Work Placement Officer, helping you create both academic and career plans.

Thanks to our partnership with the University of Bolton, you'll also benefit from everything the University has to offer, with a range of opportunities to build additional skills and experiences, giving you everything you need to become a FUTURE SUCCESS in whichever field you choose!

Exposure to employers is also an integral part of this programme – we'll seek to ensure that you have opportunities to gain real-word experience of your sector, either on short work experience or an extended Industry placement.

We’re an elite College, and part of the University of Bolton Group, offering you a gateway to all of Greater Manchester’s vast range of fantastic opportunities for specialist careers, university degree courses and higher Apprenticeships.

We’ll reward your achievements with trips to The Anderton Outdoor Activity Centre and the opportunity to apply for the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Our £75 million campus offers a refurbished fitness suite and sports hall; Apple Mac suites; libraries, a lecture theatre; hair and beauty salon; and a restaurant, café and canteen.

You’ll also enjoy a wide range of events, including showcases, enterprise activities and cultural celebrations.

You may qualify for a college bursary or financial support from Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust (LTCT), access more information here: LTCT Financial Support

Click the yellow ‘Apply’ button on this page.

You’ll be asked to set up a Learner Hub account so that you can track your application and eventually enrol online..

If you have any difficulties setting up your Learner Hub account, please email learner.hub@boltoncc.ac.uk

Open Events are the best way to discover what life as a Bolton College student is like, giving you an insight into College life.

Open Events at our Deane Road Campus are as follows:

• Tuesday 17th October 2023, 5pm-8pm
• Thursday 12th December 2024, 5pm-8pm
• Wednesday 12th February 2025, 5pm-8pm
• Thursday 20th March 2025, 5pm-8pm
• Wednesday 30th April 2025, 5pm-8pm
• Thursday 19th June 2025, 5pm-8pm

If you’d like to attend one of these events, register here

Although every care has been taken to ensure that the information contained within this document is accurate, there may be changes to this programme and provision. We will endeavour to keep prospective and current students updated where appropriate and when the information becomes available.