2025 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 9 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 342 associate degrees in marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good 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.
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
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 full 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
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 the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.