2025 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools
Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #64 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 47 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for marketing students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,786 associate degrees in marketing to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Marketing School for Your Associate Degree
The marketing associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to marketing students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of marketing students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt marketing students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for marketing students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Marketing Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
