If you plan on getting your associate degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #73 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 42 associate degrees in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized specialized sales, merchandising & marketing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in New Jersey
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing.
Top New Jersey Schools for an Associate in Specialized Marketing
It is difficult to beat Berkeley College - Woodland Park if you wish to pursue an associate degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the large suburb of Woodland Park, Berkeley College - Woodland Park is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
Soon after graduating, specialized marketing associate recipients typically earn an average of $31,115 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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