Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Associate Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized specialized sales, merchandising & marketing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students working on their associate degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

As a result of missing data, we were not able to show you the specialized sales, merchandising & marketing quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer specialized sales, merchandising & marketing and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing ranking.

Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best specialized sales, merchandising & marketing colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	151	2
Kansas	146	9
Missouri	117	0
Iowa	116	10

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Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Related Rankings by Major

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Specialized Marketing Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Apparel and Accessories Marketing Operations	11
Fashion Merchandising	10
Special Products Marketing Operations	1

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	2,019
General Business/Commerce	775
Accounting	717
Marketing	279
Business Support & Assistant Services	196
Construction Management	141
General Sales & Marketing	121
Human Resource Management	109
Finance & Financial Management	64
Management Information Systems	49

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Qfamily. More about our data sources and methodologies.