2023 Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marketing is the 17th most popular major in the country with 52,916 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,991 and had an average of $25,213 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 708 marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,199 and $24,543 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in marketing. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in marketing.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Marketing in Connecticut

1

Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#7 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sacred Heart University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in Fairfield, Connecticut, and it awarded 25 masters’s marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Marketing at Sacred Heart

2

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

#15 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Marketing Major in Connecticut for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s marketing students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Marketing at UBridgeport

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.