2025 Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #120 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 272 bachelor's degrees in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality specialized marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. 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.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's 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

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

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 easy is it for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized specialized sales, merchandising & marketing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing in the Southwest Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Specialized Marketing

1

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

108 Annual Graduates

$39,787 Median Starting Salary

$30,843 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing has to check out University of North Texas. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a very large student population.

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing bachelor's degree recipients from University of North Texas earn a boost of around $3,534 over the average earnings of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing graduates.

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2

Baylor University
Waco, TX

14 Annual Graduates

$43,414 Median Starting Salary

$78,949 Median Student Debt

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing needs to check out Baylor University. Baylor is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Waco.

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing bachelor's degree recipients from Baylor University earn a boost of about $7,161 above the typical income of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing majors.

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3

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

58 Annual Graduates

$42,712 Median Starting Salary

Texas Christian University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the city of Fort Worth, TCU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Those specialized sales, merchandising & marketing students who get their bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University earn $6,459 more than the standard specialized marketing grad.

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4

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

67 Annual Graduates

$33,040 Median Starting Salary

$36,372 Median Student Debt

It is difficult to beat Texas State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the specialized marketing program make about $33,040 in the first couple years of working.

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5

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX

16 Annual Graduates

$32,444 Median Starting Salary

Located in the distant town of Huntsville, SHSU is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Soon after graduation, specialized marketing bachelor's recipients typically earn around $32,444 at the beginning of their careers.

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Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best specialized sales, merchandising & marketing schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	245	395
Arizona	200	0
Oklahoma	190	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Specialized Marketing

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Specialized Marketing Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Fashion Merchandising	255
Special Products Marketing Operations	16
Other Specialized Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing Operations	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Specialized Marketing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	20,403
Finance & Financial Management	6,257
Marketing	6,124
Accounting	5,867
General Business/Commerce	2,155
Other Business, Management & Marketing	1,801
Management Information Systems	1,652
Human Resource Management	1,390
Entrepreneurial Studies	761
Hospitality Management	739

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).
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