2023 Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s

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 “Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s” 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 Illinois, there were 147 general sales and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,546 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general sales and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general sales and marketing. To top this list, a school must have a successful general sales and marketing program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Sales & Marketing in Illinois

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Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois

#8 overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 3 masters’s sales and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Illinois Institute of Technology General Sales & Marketing Report

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DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sales & Marketing Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. DePaul University is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 0 masters’s sales and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Sales & Marketing at DePaul

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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.