2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,440 people earned their degree in general sales, distribution, and marketing operations, making the major the 235th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 590 general sales, distribution, and marketing operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 575 general sales, distribution, and marketing operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general sales, distribution, and marketing operations. That schools that top this list have a program in general sales, distribution, and marketing operations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree general sales, distribution, and marketing operations students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 360 bachelors’s general sales, distribution, and marketing operations degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region list. UH is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 181 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#17 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations Major in the Southwest Region. Baylor is a large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 34 bachelors’s general sales, distribution, and marketing operations degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations at Baylor

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations

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.