2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in Wisconsin

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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 Wisconsin, there were 368 general sales and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,972 and $23,291 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 184 general sales and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,390 and $27,888 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general sales and marketing. That schools that top this list have a program in general sales and marketing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in Wisconsin”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in Wisconsin

1

University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin

#9 overall quality in Wisconsin

$42,955 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Menomonie, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s sales and marketing students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Sales & Marketing at UW - Stout

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#1 overall quality in Wisconsin

$52,840 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,372 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sales & Marketing Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 165 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s sales and marketing students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UW - Madison General Sales & Marketing Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing

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.