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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

This year’s “Schools 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. That schools that top this list have a program in merchandising and buying operations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

1

Washtenaw Community College
Ann Arbor, Michigan

$36,288 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,103 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washtenaw Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s merchandising and buying operations degrees to 31 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Merchandising and Buying Operations at Washtenaw Community College

2

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

$43,222 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,131 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Merchandising and Buying Operations Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Akron, Ohio. It awarded 0 ’s merchandising and buying operations degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Akron Main Campus Merchandising and Buying Operations Report

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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 Nijhuis.