2025 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Washington

If you plan on getting your associate degree in marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #64 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for marketing students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 126 associate degrees in marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marketing students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• 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 schools for marketing students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Washington list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Marketing in Washington

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in marketing.

Top Washington Schools for an Associate in Marketing

1

Columbia Basin College
Pasco, WA

27 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in marketing needs to check out Columbia Basin College. Located in the large suburb of Pasco, CBC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.More information about a associate in marketing from Columbia Basin College

2

Spokane Falls Community College
Spokane, WA

19 Annual Graduates

$44,748 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat Spokane Falls Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in marketing. Spokane Falls Community College is a small public college located in the midsize city of Spokane.

Students who graduate with their associate from the marketing program report average early career income of $44,748.

More information about a associate in marketing from Spokane Falls Community College

Best Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Marketing Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	192	17
Oregon	147	16
Hawaii	59	6

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Rankings in Majors Related to Marketing

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Marketing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Marketing Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	123
Digital Marketing	3

Majors Similar to Marketing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business/Commerce	1,206
Business Administration & Management	417
Accounting	291
Business Support & Assistant Services	40
Hospitality Management	32
Construction Management	29
Human Resource Management	11
Real Estate	7
Entrepreneurial Studies	6
Finance & Financial Management	5

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson. More about our data sources and methodologies.