2025 Best Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Michigan

If you plan on getting your associate degree in marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #64 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of marketing. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 69 associate degrees in marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Marketing School for Your Associate Degree

The marketing associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to marketing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of marketing students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt 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 marketing related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marketing students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank 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 Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Marketing in Michigan

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in marketing.

Top Michigan Schools for an Associate in Marketing

1

Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI

10 Annual Graduates

Ferris State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in marketing. Located in the remote town of Big Rapids, Ferris is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in marketing from Ferris State University

2

Macomb Community College
Warren, MI

19 Annual Graduates

Macomb Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in marketing. Located in the midsize city of Warren, Macomb Community College is a public college with a large student population.More information about a associate in marketing from Macomb Community College

3

Schoolcraft College
Livonia, MI

11 Annual Graduates

$48,724 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in marketing needs to take a look at Schoolcraft College. Located in the small city of Livonia, Schoolcraft College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

After graduating, marketing associate recipients typically earn around $48,724 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a associate in marketing from Schoolcraft College

Best Marketing Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Marketing Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	196	63
Illinois	119	6
Wisconsin	114	155

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Marketing Related Rankings by Major

Marketing is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Marketing Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	68
Marketing Research	1

Majors Similar to Marketing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	1,513
General Business/Commerce	527
Accounting	382
Business Support & Assistant Services	64
Entrepreneurial Studies	43
General Sales & Marketing	40
Hospitality Management	31
Construction Management	16
Other Business, Management & Marketing	13
Human Resource Management	7

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson. More about our data sources and methodologies.