Scroll-stopping campaigns, viral content and brands people love – someone has to create them, so why not you? This T Level puts you at the heart of modern marketing, with a 45-day industry placement where you’ll work on real campaigns alongside marketing professionals.
- Entry Criteria
5 GCSEs (9-4) including English Language and Maths
- What will I study?
You’ll learn what makes customers tick – consumer behaviour, market research and branding – and how businesses plan campaigns that get results. Expect to explore digital and social media marketing, content creation, marketing data and analytics, the legal and ethical side of advertising, and how to measure whether a campaign worked. You’ll pitch ideas, build content calendars, analyse audience insights and work to client briefs, developing the creative and commercial skills agencies and in-house teams are hiring for right now.
- Future Prospects
Launch your career as a marketing assistant, social media executive, digital marketing apprentice or content creator, or move into a Level 4 marketing apprenticeship. You could also use your UCAS points to study marketing, digital marketing, advertising or business at university – including at local universities including the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Bedfordshire and the University of Northampton.
- What is a T Level?
T Levels are a 2-year qualification that is equivalent to 3 A Levels. Study a T Level and you will undertake an Industry Placement, with a minimum of 315 hours, on a course that is 80% classroom and 20% work.
You’ll enrol on a Level 3 study programme, taking part in exams and externally marked assessments. T Levels are graded at Pass, Merit, Distinction or Distinction and you will be awarded UCAS points upon completion, the maximum you can achieve is the equivalent of 3 A* at A Level.
Studying a T Level will allow you to meet the needs of the industry and prepare you for entry into skilled employment, higher level apprenticeships or Higher Education at university.
- How is a T Level structured?
T Levels are technical qualifications involving an industry placement. You’ll spend 80% of your time in the classroom and 20% in the workplace.
You are required to have achieved GCSE English and maths at grade 4 or above or Functional Skills Level 2 to complete a T Level.
Additional occupation-specific mandatory requirements are included within your T Level. You are required to enter into employment or commence placement as part of your T Level giving you real working experience.
- Why choose a T Level?
Backed by Business
T Levels have been designed with over 250 leading businesses and employers to give you the knowledge and skills you need.
Get Ahead in Your Career
T Levels give you the chance to learn what a real career is like while you continue your studies.
Awarded UCAS points
Your T Level will be worth UCAS points – a T Level Distinction is worth the same as 3 A levels at A
Learn Your Way
T Levels offer you practical and knowledge-based learning at college and on-the-job experience with an industry placement of at least 315 hours.