2025 Best General Sales & Marketing Schools in California
3Colleges in California
636Sales & Marketing Degrees Awarded
$50,075Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in general sales & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #139 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for general sales & marketing students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 636 degrees in general sales & marketing to qualified students.
Your choice of general sales & marketing school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general sales & marketing schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Sales & Marketing Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Sales & Marketing in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the sales & marketing degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in general sales & marketing needs to look into College of the Canyons. Located in the large suburb of Santa Clarita, College of the Canyons is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 99th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 44 general sales & marketing students who graduated with this degree at College of the Canyons in the most recent data year.
Cerritos College is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in general sales & marketing. Located in the suburb of Norwalk, Cerritos College is a public college with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #540 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cerritos College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 26 general sales & marketing students who graduated with this degree at Cerritos College in the most recent year we have data available.
Sierra College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general sales & marketing. Sierra College is a large public college located in the suburb of Rocklin. This college ranks 138th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 22 general sales & marketing students who graduated with this degree at Sierra College in the most recent data year.
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).
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