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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in California (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$3,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Sales Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Professional Sales is the 649th most popular major in the country with 911 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 49 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,451 and $19,634 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent professional sales programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the professional sales program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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 Value Sales Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Sales Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for california associate degree sales students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in California (With Aid)

#1

Santa Monica College

Santa Monica, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Santa Monica College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Sales Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid. This large school is located in Santa Monica, California, and it awarded 5 associates’s sales degrees in 2019-2020.

SMC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Professional Sales Associate Degree Schools in California” list. The yearly cost to attend Santa Monica College is $3,286 for california associate degree sales students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Professional Sales at SMC

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.

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