a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #120 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Combined, these schools handed out 155 bachelor's degrees in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The specialized marketing bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 full 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
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Specialized Marketing
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing has to look into University of Georgia. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Athens.
Those specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Georgia receive $7,193 more than the typical specialized marketing grad.
It's hard to beat Meredith College if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the large city of Raleigh, Meredith is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Those specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students who get their bachelor's degree from Meredith College earn $7,337 more than the typical specialized marketing graduate.
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).