2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marketing in North Carolina

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Marketing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Marketing is the 16th most popular major in the country with 52,262 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,323 and had an average of $24,975 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 1,203 marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,911 and $25,906 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the marketing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The 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 “Best Value Marketing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina”.

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. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Marketing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Marketing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marketing in North Carolina

#1

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$17,821 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Marketing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina. Located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, this fairly large public school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s marketing students in 2019-2020.

WCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Marketing Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Western Carolina University are $17,821, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Marketing at Western Carolina University

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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).
• 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson.

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