Online Career Accelerator

Digital Marketing Strategy and Analytics

Gain the skills, confidence and credentials to lead data-driven digital marketing strategies that drive real business results.

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Key details

  • Programme type
    Online Career Accelerator
  • Location
    Online
  • Start date
    14 Apr 2025  -  Open
  • Duration
    6 months
  • Commitment
    16 - 20 hours per week
  • Department
    Department of Management

Overview

The digital economy moves fast—and businesses need marketers who can lead with insight, creativity and confidence. As more human interaction shifts online, the competition for meaningful attention intensifies, and the volume of data grows.

To succeed, organisations need professionals who can turn insights into action—crafting strategies that don’t just reach customers, but move them. That’s where you come in.

Leading in digital marketing today means more than knowing channels—it means unlocking the power of data to drive ROI, shape strategy, and attract top talent. This programme empowers you to step into that role.

The LSE Digital Marketing Strategy & Analytics Career Accelerator gives you the tools, support and credentials to lead with clarity. You’ll learn how to turn marketing data into insight, and insight into strategy—building integrated, future-focused plans that grow businesses.

You’ll apply your learning through engaging coursework and a real employer project, building a diverse portfolio that proves your strategic thinking, creativity and technical skill. From channel strategy to data privacy, growth marketing to emerging technologies—you’ll graduate ready to make an immediate impact and drive ROI for any business.

"This was the only programme that offered real projects. By working with an actual company, it provides a better understanding of the real market and how to apply my knowledge in practical scenarios, ultimately increasing opportunities for employment after the programme."

Sofia Stefou, Digital Marketing Career Accelerator Past Participant

Impact

  • Design an integrated, data-driven digital marketing strategy that leverages multiple channels to achieve your business goals
  • Build processes, structures and reports to track marketing performance and budget management, helping you to become a data-driven leader
  • Use data to inform your strategy, optimise campaigns and support your marketing decisions
  • Identify the opportunities created by emerging technologies and innovations, and integrate them into your strategy
  • Understand data privacy regulations and ethical considerations of data-driven marketing
  • Collaborate remotely with a diverse peer group and develop your ability to create business value through a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving
  • Work with Success Managers and Career Coaches to demonstrate self-reflection that improves career outcomes
  • Develop a project-based portfolio as proof of your technical abilities and their relevance to employers
  • Earn an LSE certificate as globally-relevant recognition of your new knowledge and competencies

Programme content

This online Career Accelerator runs for six months (excluding onboarding) and requires 16–20 hours per week. You’ll learn through interactive coursework, real-world projects and industry insight—building both technical skill and strategic capability.

Who attends?

  • Career Advancers ready to step into marketing leadership roles and drive strategy with confidence.
  • Mid-level professionals who want to deepen their digital marketing capabilities and gain employer-validated experience.
  • Career Changers from adjacent fields looking to pivot into digital marketing with a practical, portfolio-based programme that builds job-ready skills and professional confidence

Why LSE?

LSE Online builds on our 128 year tradition of exploring the interconnected, multidisciplinary nature of our world that shape society and business globally. Since our inception in 1895, LSE has been a pioneer in providing courses for professional development. Our founding commitment is to understand the causes of things for the betterment of society. Never has this been a more important goal than in these times of unparalleled change. We provide you with the insights and skills to think critically and independently. To make the connections, see the greater picture. To shape the future by understanding today. Whatever stage you are in your life and career. Wherever you are in the world.

Faculty

This Career Accelerator is designed by LSE faculty in collaboration with industry experts and leading technology companies to align programme outcomes with industry demand.

Amitav Chakravarti

Professor Amitav Chakravarti

Professor of Marketing, Department of Management

Om Narasimhan

Professor Om Narasimhan

Professor of Marketing, Department of Management

Department overview

The Department of Management at LSE is a world-class centre for research and education in business and management, that draws fully on the LSE tradition of inter-disciplinary academic excellence. Ranked #5 worldwide for social sciences and management by the QS World University Rankings (2023) and #2 in the UK by percentage of overall four and three star in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), the department informs and inspires the very best in management in practice by challenging and enhancing understanding of people, teams, organisations and markets, as well as the economic, psychological, social, political and technological contexts in which they operate worldwide. 

Fees and entry requirements

Tuition fees: £5,825 if you pay upfront.

Flexible payment options available. LSE alumni automatically qualify for a preferential rate of 15% off the programme fee.

Upon successful completion of this Career Accelerator, you’ll leave with a practical portfolio to demonstrate your technical expertise, and earn an LSE certificate as recognition of your critical knowledge and skills.

Entry requirements: 

If you have a relevant undergraduate degree, you’ll be required to submit a copy of an academic transcript, a one-page CV, and a personal statement (up to 500 words). You may also be required to provide references to further support your application.

If you do not have an undergraduate degree, you’ll still be considered if you have 1-2 years of relevant work experience. You’ll be required to submit a one-page CV demonstrating your work experience, a personal statement (up to 500 words), and a supporting letter from an employer.

If you don’t meet the criteria for either of these options, please book a call with an Enrolment Advisor for further discussion and consideration.

Additionally, all applicants must meet English language proficiency requirements, attend an admissions interview to further determine competency and fit, and have access to the technology required to complete an online programme.