2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Merchandising and Buying Operations in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Merchandising and Buying Operations is the 1168th most popular major in the country with 48 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 31 merchandising and buying operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 merchandising and buying operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in merchandising and buying operations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in merchandising and buying operations.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Merchandising and Buying Operations in the Great Lakes Region

1

Washtenaw Community College
Ann Arbor, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washtenaw Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Washtenaw Community College is a public institution located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 19 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Merchandising and Buying Operations at Washtenaw Community College

2

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Akron Main Campus is located in Akron, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s merchandising and buying operations degrees to qualified students.

Full University of Akron Main Campus Merchandising and Buying Operations Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Merchandising and Buying Operations

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 Nijhuis.