If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general sales & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #107 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 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Sales & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 65 bachelor's degrees in general sales & marketing to qualified students.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's 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 general sales & marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general sales & marketing students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 general sales & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general sales & marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general sales & marketing students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Sales & Marketing Schools
The sales & marketing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Sales & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Sales & Marketing in Connecticut
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general sales & marketing.
Top Connecticut Schools for a Bachelor's in Sales & Marketing
It is hard to beat University of Hartford if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general sales & marketing. Located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford, UHart is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the sales & marketing program earn about $37,600 in the first couple years of working.
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).