2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in Missouri

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Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing is the 138th most popular major in the country with 5,191 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,431 and had an average of $30,391 in loans still to pay off.

Across Missouri, there were 105 specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,237 and $24,758 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 specialized sales, merchandising and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Specialized Marketing Major in Missouri” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in specialized sales, merchandising and marketing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their specialized sales, merchandising and marketing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Specialized Marketing Major in Missouri

The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri master’s degree specialized marketing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in Missouri

1

Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, Missouri

#14 overall quality in Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Specialized Marketing Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Lindenwood University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Charles, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s specialized marketing students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing at Lindenwood University

2

University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

#4 overall quality in Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Specialized Marketing Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. Mizzou is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 1 masters’s specialized marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full Mizzou Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & 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.

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