2023 Best Value Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Sales & Marketing is the 139th most popular major in the country with 5,923 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general sales and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,525 and had an average of $23,038 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 248 general sales and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,947 and $20,101 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general sales and marketing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general sales and marketing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general sales and marketing 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 & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region sales & marketing students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Weber State University
Ogden, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$11,647 Average Net Price

$46,655 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Weber State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region. WSU is a large school located in Ogden, Utah that handed out 236 ’s sales and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

WSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $11,647 for Rocky Mountains Region Sales & Marketing students per year to attend WSU.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.

Read more about General Sales & Marketing at WSU

2

Colorado Christian University
Lakewood, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$25,051 Average Net Price

$42,552 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Christian University landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado Christian University is located in Lakewood, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 ’s sales and marketing degrees to qualified students.

CCU also made our “Best General Sales & Marketing Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado Christian University is $25,051 for Rocky Mountains Region Sales & Marketing students.

Read full report on General Sales & Marketing at Colorado Christian University

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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.