by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 489 general sales & marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major” ranking looked at 14 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major”.
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Universidad Ana G. Mendez landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 14 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. New York University is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 349 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baruch College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. Baruch College is a public institution located in New York, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 98 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s sales & marketing students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 15 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Lindenwood University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized school located in Saint Charles, Missouri that handed out 7 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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With a ranking of #7, South Dakota State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 1 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 5 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Ohio University - Athens Campus General Sales & Marketing Report
University of South Carolina - Columbia ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. UofSC is a large public school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 137 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on General Sales & Marketing at University of South Carolina - Columbia
University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s sales & marketing degrees to 143 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Sales & Marketing at University of Wisconsin - Madison
William Paterson University of New Jersey came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking. Located in Wayne, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s sales & marketing students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Fordham University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking, coming in at #10. This fairly large school is located in Bronx, New York, and it awarded 0 masters’s sales & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Pennsylvania did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major ranking, coming in at #10. University of Pennsylvania is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s sales & marketing degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
DePaul University ranked #10 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major list. DePaul University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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