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Part-Time Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing

The Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing is an advanced NQF Level 8 qualification for graduates and working professionals ready to move beyond digital marketing execution. 

Through a combination of live and self-paced learning, you’ll develop the strategic, analytical and technical capabilities to design and optimise data-driven campaigns, interpret complex marketing data and apply emerging technologies to real commercial challenges.

From performance marketing and consumer behaviour to AI, automation and advanced analytics, you’ll build the confidence and capability to lead digital marketing in an increasingly complex world.

Designed to be completed online over two year, this programme consists of part-time study – allowing you to build your skills while continuing to work. If you’d like to complete it full-time over one year through distance study, you can learn more here.

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Course Curriculum

This module is the foundation of the programme. You’ll work with digital customer journeys, experiential marketing and service ecosystems to design consumer-centric strategies, and learn to plan integrated, multichannel campaigns that drive measurable engagement in complex digital environments. 

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Key Info

  • Course Duration: 2 Year
  • Accreditation: Council on Higher Education (CHE)
  • Access: Online
  • Start Date: 1 March 2027
  • Cost: Enquire for Price

What you'll learn

  • You’ll learn to critically evaluate digital marketing and consumer behaviour to develop strategies for complex digital environments.  
  • You’ll build advanced capabilities in performance marketing, using platforms such as Google Ads, Meta Ads and programmatic advertising to design, run and optimise data-driven campaigns.  
  • You’ll apply analytics, including A/B testing, audience segmentation, customer-lifetime-value modelling and predictive analytics, to make better marketing decisions.  
  • You’ll also explore how technologies such as AI, automation, blockchain, IoT, AR/VR and Web3 can create commercial value, while considering privacy, ethics and algorithmic bias.  
  • Through design thinking, business research and workplace-based learning, you’ll develop creative, evidence-led solutions to real marketing and business challenges.
Turn data into decisions

Learn to interpret complex marketing data, uncover meaningful insights and use evidence to guide strategic decisions. 

Make campaigns perform

Build advanced skills in performance marketing, audience segmentation, testing and campaign optimisation. 

Use emerging technology strategically

Learn to evaluate and apply AI, automation and emerging technologies to create genuine commercial value. 

Lead digital marketing

Develop the strategic, analytical and commercial capabilities to step into more senior digital marketing roles. 

Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career

Platforms evolve. Algorithms change. New technologies reshape customer expectations and business models. 

That’s why this qualification goes beyond teaching individual tools. It develops the strategic thinking, analytical judgement and commercial understanding required to make better marketing decisions, regardless of what changes next. 

By combining academic depth with practical application, you’ll graduate equipped to navigate complexity, improve digital performance and help organisations make smarter use of data and technology. 

Career options

  • Digital Marketing Manager  
  • Performance Marketing Specialist  
  • Programmatic Advertising Specialist  
  • Data-Driven Campaign Analyst  
  • Consumer Insights Manager  
  • Content Marketing Manager  
  • Social Marketing Specialist 

Benefits:

Advanced, industry-relevant learning 

  • Build expertise in the areas shaping modern digital marketing, including performance marketing, advanced analytics, consumer insight, AI, automation and programmatic advertising. 

 

Practical application 

  • Apply your learning through assignments, case studies, campaign development, research and workplace-based experience. 

 

Flexible ways to study 

  • Choose between on-campus study and a fully online mode combining live and self-paced learning. 

 

Continuous assessment 

  • Build your capability throughout the programme through assignments, portfolios, presentations and research, with no traditional examinations. 

 

A pathway to further study 

  • Strengthen your research capability and academic foundation for potential progression to a relevant Master’s degree or MBA.

Included in your qualification

  • An NQF Level 8 Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing  
  • Seven advanced core modules and one elective  
  • Practical learning across performance marketing, analytics and emerging technology  
  • Workplace-based learning through your chosen elective  
  • Continuous, assignment-based assessment  
  • Access to experienced lecturers and subject-matter experts  
  • The option to study on campus or fully online 

This qualification is perfect for:

  • Working Marketing and Business Professionals who want to advance their careers while continuing to work.  
  • Graduates with a relevant NQF Level 7 qualification who want to specialise in advanced digital marketing.  
  • Marketers ready to move from campaign execution into strategy, analytics and leadership.  
  • Professionals who want to deepen their expertise in performance marketing, consumer insight, AI, automation and emerging technology.  
  • Prepare for further postgraduate study. 

 

Applicants ordinarily require a relevant NQF Level 7 qualification. Recognition of Prior Learning may be available to experienced practitioners who meet the required criteria.

Brands we work with

ABSA
Primedia Group
MTN
Holder Vector
TFG Limited
Accenture Song
African Bank
Capitec
Coronation
Dentsu Aegis Network
Dimension Data
DStv
FCB
GroupM
IPG
Kagiso
M&C Saatchi
Media24
MultiChoice
Nedbank
Ogilvy
Old Mutual
Omnicom
Revlon
Sun International
TBWA
Unilever
VMLY&R
Vodacom
WPP

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