2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in California

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,177 people earned their degree in professional sales, making the major the 553rd most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 63 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 professional sales graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,972 and $17,699 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in professional sales. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their professional sales program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california associate degree sales students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in California

1

Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Santa Monica College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California list. Located in Santa Monica, California, this large public school handed out 9 degrees to qualified associates’s sales students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Professional Sales at Santa Monica College

2

Cypress College
Cypress, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cypress College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California list. Located in Cypress, California, this fairly large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s sales students in 2020-2021.

Full Cypress College Professional Sales Report

2

Cerritos College
Norwalk, California

Top 20% overall quality in California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cerritos College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sales Major in California list. This fairly large school is located in Norwalk, California, and it awarded 0 associates’s sales degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Professional Sales at Cerritos College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Professional Sales

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.