CIM Courses & Qualifications

Marketing Tom Media is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing to deliver the following CIM qualifications in the Cardiff region:

• Foundation Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing – A CIM qualification at Level 3 provides you with the essential skills needed to enter the marketing industry and be able to perform professionally in a support level role within the workplace. Perfect for those new to junior marketing roles or aspiring to enter the industry and looking for the perfect introduction to marketing.
• Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing – A CIM qualification at Level 4 builds on your tactical marketing skills enabling you to advance your marketing career and perform professionally at an operational level within your marketing department. The go to for marketing executives, or equivalent, who have had experience in the industry and are looking to advance their career.
• Digital Diploma in Professional Marketing – A CIM qualification at Level 6 develops your strategic marketing skills enabling you progress your marketing career and perform professionally at a management level. For marketing managers and marketers working in operational and supervisory roles, who are looking to progress their strategic and management skills.

Marketing Tom, unlike most other Study Centres, generally delivers courses on a monthly basis. That is to say we run at least one module of the Foundation Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing and Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing every month. The Diploma course is run every 3 months.

Courses start at 9.00 am and finish at 4.30 pm, though many of our ‘Live’ Zoom sessions are run from 9.00 am to 1.30 pm. This means some courses run over three morning sessions instead of 2 intensive days.

For the Foundation Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing and the Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing are assessed in the following way:

• Foundation Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing: 1 written and 1 online assessment
• Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing: 2 written and 1 online assessment

The Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing is assessed in the following way:

• 3 written assessments

Students can submit their Assessments for any of the 2021 Assessment Sessions. Students should note that papers can change from one Assessment session to another.

• July 2021
• September 2021
• December 2021

Foundation Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing 

• Course cost: £495 +VAT per module; £990 +VAT for full course.
• CIM cost: £110 per assessment (2 in total); yearly membership: £65. Please note there is an online proctoring fee of £45 during the pandemic. You should allocate a £40-50 spend on books.

Certificate in Professional Digital Marketing 

• Course cost: £500* +VAT per module; £1500* +VAT for full course.
• CIM cost: £110 per assessment (3 in total); yearly membership: £65. Please note there is an online proctoring fee of £45 during the pandemic. You should allocate a £40-50 spend on books.

Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing 

The introductory cost of the CIM Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing will be £1950 +VAT (payable to the Study Centre). If you are self-financing, there may also be payment options open to you. Please speak to our CIM co-ordinator regarding this. Individual modules cost £700 (+VAT)

• Course cost: £700* +VAT per module; £1950* +VAT for full course.
• CIM cost: £190 per assessment (3 in total); yearly membership: £65.

(*Prices change in January to £550 +VAT per module; £1650* +VAT for full course)

And don’t forget …

… if you are self-financing, there may be payment options open to you. This will allow you to spread the cost of the course over a period of a few months. Please speak to our CIM co-ordinator on 02920 005778 regarding this.

Please check out our Payment Plan page.

✅  We have been an Accredited CIM Study Centre since 2007.

✅  Our pass rate since we started is around 98%

✅  Well over 75% of students received A’s an B’s for their assessments/exams work in the latest exam boards.

✅   100% of our students who completed their Full certificates/diplomas over the past 4 years have received Merits or Distinction!

✅  All of our tutors are experienced practitioners in their own fields and have a wealth of experience in marketing and digital marketing training. Most are Chartered Marketers.

✅  Courses are run as either 3.5-hour sessions on Zoom or 7 hours in a classroom. You don’t have to attend once a week, in the evening!

✅  All our Zoom courses are recorded.

✅  Our CIM results are consistently above the UK national average.

✅  Our CIM Level 4 and 6 courses include a FREE Google Analytics day.

✅  Our Support site is designed to help students improve their grades.

✅  Zoom revision and 1-to-1 sessions are available for many of our modules at the moment (and will be available to all in the future).

✅  Students can, depending on other demands, complete all training / assessments in under 6 months for level 3, between 6-8 months for level 4 and just under 10 months for level 6.

We run our courses on weekdays and (sometimes for Level 6) weekend sessions. For our CIM Level 3 and 4 courses we are able to deliver 1 module every month which means we can run between 3-4 cohorts per year (most other Study Centres run 1 cohort per year). And because each of CIM’s qualifications is made up bite-sized modules, students have the ability to join our courses at different times of the year and not at one fixed point.

Our courses are offer a nice balance of teaching through course slides, discussion and breakout sessons. All of our tutors are vastly experienced in both teaching CIM courses and have many years’ expeience of teaching in industry.

Since the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic we have run all courses ‘live’ through Zoom/WebEx. This means we have also been able to do student feedback sessions through this medium.

For much of 2020 (and continuing through 2021) this course has been delivered ‘live’ through a virtual platform. Each module offers between 15-23 hours of ‘Live’ Virtual Classrooms. All courses are delivered through WebEx/Zoom which allows us to stream HD-quality video of our courses direct to your laptop, desktop or tablet. This means you can participate from the comfort of your home/office, anywhere. All of our modules are recorded so students can review the class afterwards. Learn more about CIM Virtual Classrooms.