2022 Best Value Colleges for Professional Sales (Income $0-$30k) in Massachusetts

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Sales Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 911 people earned their degree in professional sales, making the major the 649th most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 10 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality professional sales programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the professional sales program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Sales Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Sales Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Sales Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Professional Sales (Income $0-$30k) in Massachusetts

#1

Bentley University

Waltham, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$25,432 Average Net Price

$65,971 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Sales Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bentley University landed the #1 spot on the list. Bentley is a medium-sized school located in Waltham, Massachusetts that handed out 10 ’s sales degrees in 2019-2020.

Bentley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Professional Sales Schools in Massachusetts” list. It costs about $25,432 for Massachusetts Sales students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Bentley.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Bentley University Professional Sales Report

• Best Value Colleges for Professional Sales (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Colleges for Professional Sales (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Nijhuis.

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