2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region

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General Sales & Marketing is the 139th most popular major in the country with 5,450 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general sales & marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $44,525 and had an average of $25,281 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 652 general sales & marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,170 and $27,173 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 general sales & marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general sales & marketing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general sales & marketing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in the Southwest Region

1

Wade College
Dallas, Texas

$21,801 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wade College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region list. Wade College is a private for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Full Wade College General Sales & Marketing Report

2

Mesa Community College
Mesa, Arizona

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mesa Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Mesa Community College is a public institution located in Mesa, Arizona. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mesa Community College General Sales & Marketing Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.