2024 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

If you plan on getting your associate degree in marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #64 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for marketing students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 17 associate degrees in marketing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 marketing students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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 easy is it for marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marketing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for marketing students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

 

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Marketing in Pennsylvania

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in marketing.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for an Associate in Marketing

1

Central Penn College
Summerdale, PA

1 Annual Graduates

Central Penn College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in marketing. Located in the suburb of Summerdale, Central Penn is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a associate in marketing from Central Penn College

2

Northampton County Area Community College
Bethlehem, PA

11 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in marketing has to look into Northampton County Area Community College. Northampton Community College is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Bethlehem.More information about a associate in marketing from Northampton County Area Community College

Best Marketing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Marketing Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	196	256
New Jersey	137	25
Maryland	126	4
Delaware	60	23
District of Columbia	36	6

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Rankings in Majors Related to Marketing

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Marketing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Marketing Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	17

Majors Similar to Marketing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	1,388
General Business/Commerce	915
Accounting	252
Hospitality Management	118
Human Resource Management	56
Business Support & Assistant Services	45
Entrepreneurial Studies	23
General Sales & Marketing	14
Management Information Systems	11
Finance & Financial Management	10

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson. More about our data sources and methodologies.