2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 181 people earned their degree in other specialized merchandising, sales, and marketing operations, making the major the 888th most popular in the United States.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other specialized merchandising, sales, and marketing operations. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other specialized merchandising, sales, and marketing operations programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the other specialized merchandising, sales, and marketing operations program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

110 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$10,044 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 31 diplomas to qualified masters’s other specialized merchandising, sales, and marketing operations students in 2020-2021.

St. Joe’s also made our “Best Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, St. Joe’s supports 6,779 students, and 110 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 72 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,044. On top of their other funding sources, 10 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, New York

83 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$3,456 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fashion Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations for a Master’s. Fashion Institute of Technology is a public institution located in New York, New York. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 19 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

FIT SUNY also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Of the 8,191 students enrolled at Fashion Institute of Technology, 83 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 45 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,456. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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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