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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Sales & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 76 associate degrees in general sales & marketing to qualified students.
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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 full 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Sales & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Minnesota State Community and Technical College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in general sales & marketing. Located in the rural area of Fergus Falls, M State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the sales & marketing program make about $39,563 in their early career salary.
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).