I graduated with a BA and no idea what came next. I could write, but every job asked for experience I did not have.
The course was four evenings a week. By week six I was running a small campaign for a local clothing brand as a class project. By month four I had a job offer from the agency that reviewed it.
The thing that made the difference was having numbers to talk about in the interview. I could say exactly what I spent, what it returned and what I would do differently.