The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning, a program designed for an international audience, turns you into a professional specialist in managing a brand, creating its meanings and commitments, and defining its strategy, based on a rigorous, innovative and creative approach.
The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning provides you with the methodologies and tools necessary to strategically think about the brand: define the meaning, the strategy, and the plan for the brand for each of its contact points.
Starting from concepts such as brand purpose, value proposition, brand meaning, archetypes, brand identity, strategic innovation, or social responsibility, you will learn to plan the creation and development of a brand strategically, to create a world of meaning, to take care of its reputation and to ensure its impact. Throughout the course, you will learn how to give brands a defined identity, ensure that their differential values are recognized and transmitted (Brand Meaning Creation), how to apply innovative concepts to keep it current and unique (Brand Strategy & Innovation), or how to make it live in harmony with its environment by applying principles of social responsibility.
All this under the leadership of professors and professionals in marketing, strategic planning, creativity, and brand identity and with the help of different partner companies that allow participants to work on real brand and communication problems.
First program in Spain that treats the brand from a 3.0 point of view and allows you to understand it from its tangible and intangible aspects (innovation and emotional dimension), as well as from its key construction processes (vision, personality, storytelling, analysis, and strategy).
All the professors in the program are highly regarded professionals in the sector who work for large clients. Professionals in marketing, strategic planning, creativity, and brand identity provide both the agency's vision and that of the advertiser.
The program has the collaboration of important brands that allow participants to develop their master's project around real brand and communication problems.
There is a growing demand in companies, advertising agencies, and consultancies, for specialists in strategy and brand management. Strategic brand planning has become a necessary speciality to generate products, content, and messages that respond effectively to rapidly changing needs.
The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning is aimed at graduates in business administration and management, advertising, communication, marketing, design, sociology, social psychology, and market research, as well as experienced professionals who wish to receive complete training in the creation and planning of brands.
The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning is structured into 4 modules and a postgraduate project that is developed throughout the course.
Project applied to the identity, innovation, and reputation of a brand based on a real client.
The Postgraduate in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
This module extends throughout the academic year and is made up of 3 areas of knowledge that constitute the identity traits of the UPF-BSM: Communication; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; and Planetary Well-being and Humanities.
All the subjects of the BSM Inside module are 100% online and have been designed as self-learning subjects: from the first day of the subject until the end of the term you will have all the teaching materials available on the eCampus and you can work with the material and the different activities that it contains at your own pace, according to your availability and in a self-organized way.
Once you have passed the program, you will receive the following electronic degree certification (eTítulo©): Specialization diploma in Strategic Planning and Brand Meaning, awarded by Pompeu Fabra University. The eTítulo© will be issued in Catalan, Spanish and English.
The electronic degree certification (eTítulo© ) is an authentic digital degree, issued in pdf format and electronically signed, with the same legal validity as if it were in paper format.
The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning is a professionalizing program. For this, it counts on professors and professionals from marketing, strategic planning, creativity, and brand identity of great prestige in their various disciplines who contribute both the view of the agency and that of the advertiser.
The methodology of the program aims to be eminently participatory and oriented to professional practice. For each of the course modules, the following is considered:
The defined concepts will be put into practice by defining a brand and communication strategy project on a specific case that will be worked on throughout the course.
Participative sessions with a teaching staff made up of professionals with wide experience in large clients and who contribute both the view of the agency and that of the advertiser.
The postgraduate project is developed on a real brand problem presented by the different companies that partner the program. Participants solve real brand strategies on these problems. Companies change every year and one of them is always a foundation or NGO.
The postgraduate project is developed in groups of four participants proposed by the management of the program. In this way, learning and implementation just like in the professional world is guaranteed.
Throughout each module, the participants have two workshop classes to advance their project.
In turn, the work groups will have a tutor to prepare the project. At the end of each module, the groups will have a minimum of two personalized tutorials.
Work for a brand is the fundamental piece of postgraduate evaluation. Each group must make a brand diagnosis, a strategic brand plan, and a Brand Manifesto.
Peer to peer evaluation, attendance of the workshops, evaluation by the tutors and evaluable exercises will increase or decrease the individual grade.
The On-Campus&Live methodology allows you to follow the program in person and also remotely.
In this modality, two stable subgroups are opened that will coexist throughout the course: one face-to-face and the other with 100% remote students. The remote students (a maximum of 15 places per course) will follow the program in a synchronous way with the face-to-face students. That is, they will share the same school calendar and schedule as the face-to-face students.
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems, and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills, and achieve learning which is transferable to the job. The face-to-face modality is enriched with elements of online programs (virtual learning environment, multimedia resources, among others) so that the learning experience of the two subgroups is equally satisfactory.
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The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning brings together participants from all over the world who want to turn their professional careers towards the world of brands and become experts in strategic planning and brand innovation. It prepares you to work on the strategic planning of a brand in a company who wants to advertise, or to help the company with its brand strategy from a brand or advertising agency.
It offers a unique training under the leadership of recognized professionals that enables you to work as Account Planner in advertising or brand agencies, or perform strategic marketing functions in any company.
With more than 10 years of experience, the postgraduate course brings together participants from all over the world with training and experience in Business Administration, advertising, communication, marketing, or design. The program also has profiles from other backgrounds, such as sociologists and psychologists, interested in how different social and cultural movements affect brands, as well as entrepreneurial profiles.
Average age
Average professional experience
International participants
The Postgraduate Course in Strategic Brand Planning and Brand Meaning provides the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to practice as an Account Planner in advertising or brand agencies, or perform strategic marketing functions in any company.
Includes the option of doing extracurricular internships.
Both in companies (brand development, communication, or marketing departments), and in brand consultancies and advertising agencies (strategic brand planning and communication departments).
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
*Discount not compatible with other scholarships, discounts and reductions.
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator.
In addition, we collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.
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