2022 Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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 “Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Professional Sales is the 649th most popular major in the country with 911 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 152 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in professional sales. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great professional sales programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the professional sales program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in the Plains States Region

#1

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$15,616 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Bellevue University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Bellevue, Nebraska. It awarded 9 bachelors’s sales degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree sales students list, Bellevue University has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Professional Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Bellevue University is $15,616 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Sales students.

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#2

University of Minnesota - Duluth

Duluth, Minnesota

#4 in overall quality

$17,067 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Duluth. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. University of Minnesota - Duluth is located in Duluth, Minnesota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s sales degrees to qualified students.

UMN Duluth not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Professional Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UMN Duluth is $17,067 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Sales students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$18,285 Average Net Price

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s sales degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

K -State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Professional Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $18,285 for plains states region bachelor’s degree sales students per year to attend K -State.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read full report on Professional Sales at Kansas State University

#4

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#3 in overall quality

$19,078 Average Net Price

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Sales Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #4 spot on the list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sales degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

St. Kate’s not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Professional Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend St Catherine University is $19,078 for plains states region bachelor’s degree sales students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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 Nijhuis.

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