2022 Best Value Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in Arkansas (With 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 Specialized Marketing Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing is the 132nd most popular major in the country with 5,357 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,500 and had an average of $30,557 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 3 specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality specialized sales, merchandising and marketing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Specialized Marketing Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Specialized Marketing Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas specialized marketing students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in Arkansas (With Aid)

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

$48,761 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Specialized Marketing Schools in Arkansas For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #1 spot on the list. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 ’s specialized marketing degrees to qualified students.

Harding did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,375 for arkansas specialized marketing students with aid per year to attend Harding University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing at Harding

• Best Value Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing (With Aid)

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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