2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Specialized Marketing for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
27
Degrees Awarded
$37,300
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Specialized Marketing for a Master’s” ranking.
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing is the 138th most popular major in the country with 5,191 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,431 and had an average of $30,391 in loans still to pay off.
Across California, there were 374 specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,092 and $32,487 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great specialized sales, merchandising and marketing programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the specialized sales, merchandising and marketing program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Specialized Marketing for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Specialized Marketing for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Specialized Marketing for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s specialized marketing degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.
Academy of Art University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in California” list.Our most recent data shows that 1,287 of the 8,928 students enrolled at Academy of Art University were GI Bill® students, of which 1,016 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $16,275. To help with additional expenses, 257 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Academy of Art University]](/colleges/academy-of-art-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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