2025 Best General Sales & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in California
3Colleges in California
264Associate Degrees
General Sales & Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #97 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for general sales & marketing students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 264 associate degrees in general sales & marketing to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Sales & Marketing School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general sales & marketing for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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
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 general sales & marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general sales & 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 easy is it for general sales & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general sales & marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general sales & marketing students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank General Sales & Marketing Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Sales & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of general sales & marketing for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
