Add hands-on Digital Marketing experience to your resume and open up a world of opportunities.

Session Dates

Transparent Costs

Summer: May 19 to August 9

Fall: August 18 to December 13

of your Illinois Tech tuition

Course code for the Global Career Accelerator

BUS 495

Benefits of the Global Career Accelerator

Get 4 certifications and verified skills for your resume

Unlock access to an exclusive career network

The program may be financial aid eligible. Program cost is billed to your student account. 

Build a portfolio of real-world experience with industry-leading companies

Access to coaching and networking events with industry professionals

Design and build an online store.

Accelerate your career with marketing skills.

Find, attract and engage a worldwide audience through digital marketing best practices.

Build a portfolio of Google and Meta Ad campaigns with behavior and demographic targeting.

Learn how to turn a profit by increasing conversion rates through A/B testing.

Learn social media tactics to build brand presence on Instagram and TikTok.

Receive a Social Media charity:water project certification for your resume and LinkedIn.

Receive a Ecommerce Specialist Shopify project certification for your resume and LinkedIn.

Build your emotional intelligence skillset.

Develop listening skills that manage bias.

Receive an Intercultural Skills certification for LinkedIn.

You'll step into an exciting Digital Marketing project for Charity: Water, a frontrunner in the global mission of ensuring clean water for all:

• Devise a brand and content strategy aimed at engaging younger audiences.
• Plan and roll out a captivating marketing campaign.
• Craft compelling content across diverse platforms such as Instagram, Google Ads, and TikTok.
• Present your marketing plan and articulate the strategic choices you made.

Social Media 

Strategist

Business

Owner

Sports Marketer

Creative 

Director

Management Consultant

Journalist

HEAD OF DIGITAL MARKETING

Trilingual, a published author, featured entrepreneur on Remezcla and Buzzfeed, and an award-winning instructor, Rita has worked as a marketing leader for NPR, Time Inc. and Zillow, crafting stories that help people feel a strong sense of connection with a product or brand.

HEAD OF LIVE EXPERIENCE

A self-starter, entrepreneur and educator, Rupali is a first-generation American who pioneered marketing initiatives for multi-billion-dollar organizations before founding her own impactful digital marketing consultancy. She is passionate about education and increasing diversity in business.

Your teaching team is here to support and mentor you through your experience. Attend Drop-In Hours with the team to ask questions and connect with them.

Connect and network with your peers across other universities, ask questions and share some of your projects progress.

Our super-powered chatbot Bodhi has solved 80% of participants' questions in past terms—but get real human help when needed.

Check out past projects created by alumni of the Digital Marketing Track.

Earn credit while building in-demand skills, certifications, and real-work experience.

The Global Career Accelerator painted a bigger picture of how this would fit into my life and my career. It allowed me to synthesize my campaigns, my interactions, and my sales in a new way.

Tadi P.

Global Studies Major

Alumna of the Digital Marketing Track

The Illinois Tech Global Career Accelerator is offered in partnership with Podium Education, the leader in experiential learning, supercharging the undergraduate degree with real-world, project-based experiences that prepare all students for high-growth careers.

The program is offered through Illinois Institute of Technology.

Contact the Illinois Tech Global Career Accelerator Team at (708) 960-9755.

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