MKTG 3114 Strategic Pricing and Marketing

This course teaches the key skills and theories for creating and managing pricing strategy for financial profitability. The course is practical and hands-on. It examines pricing practices used by many companies in business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, services, and wholesaling and retailing. You will learn which costs are relevant for pricing, financial analysis for pricing decisions, value-based pricing, managing price competition, customer management of pricing, negotiated pricing, segmentation pricing, buyer psychology of pricing, and pricing research methods.

Course overview

Department
Marketing
School
CSOM
Credits
3
Level
Undergraduate
Offered
Every Spring

Catalog details

Prerequisites
MKTG1021

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Course evaluations

Response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations (Avalanche/Blue).

Course rating
4.22 / 5 · Very Good
50 responses
Instructor rating
4.53 / 5 · Excellent
50 responses
Terms evaluated
3
Most recent: Spring 2026

Scales: overall ratings run from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent); agreement questions from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree); weekly effort from 1 (up to 1 hour) to 5 (10 or more hours).

Evaluations by term and instructor
TermInstructorCourse overallInstructor overallWell organizedClear learning objectivesIntellectually challengingHelpful assignmentsApplicable beyond courseAttendance necessaryWeekly effortResponses
Spring 2026Kanishka Misra4.54.84.94.94.54.74.74.41–3 hrs/week21 of 25
Spring 2025Kanishka Misra4.04.34.44.44.54.44.54.11–3 hrs/week23 of 28
Fall 2021Samuel Engel4.24.54.75.05.04.25.04.84–6 hrs/week6 of 7

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-10-09. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

Sections

  • Section 01
    Spring 2027 · Kanishka Misra · Fulton Hall 453 Tu 04:30PM-06:50PM · Offered