If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #120 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 90 bachelor's degrees in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's 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 - The number of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 bachelor's 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 colleges for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Schools
The specialized marketing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in the Plains States Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Specialized Marketing
University of Central Missouri is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the town of Warrensburg, UCM is a public university with a large student population.
Soon after graduation, specialized marketing bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $33,422 in the first five years of their career.
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).