2025 Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #120 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 5 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. 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. 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 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

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's 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 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 Texas list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing.

Top Texas 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

University of North Texas is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the midsize city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the specialized sales, merchandising & marketing major at University of North Texas make $3,135 above the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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2

Baylor University
Waco, TX

14 Annual Graduates

$43,414 Median Starting Salary

$78,949 Median Student Debt

Baylor University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. 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 receive an earnings boost of approximately $6,762 above the typical income of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing graduates.

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3

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

58 Annual Graduates

$42,712 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing needs to check out Texas Christian University. Located in the large city of Fort Worth, TCU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing bachelor's degree recipients from Texas Christian University receive an earnings boost of about $6,060 above the typical income of specialized sales, merchandising & marketing graduates.

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4

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

67 Annual Graduates

$33,040 Median Starting Salary

$36,372 Median Student Debt

Texas State University is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in specialized sales, merchandising & marketing. Located in the small city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the specialized marketing program report average early career wages of $33,040.

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5

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX

16 Annual Graduates

$32,444 Median Starting Salary

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

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the specialized marketing program earn around $32,444 in the first couple years of working.

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Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
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 Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	7,780
Finance & Financial Management	4,650
Marketing	4,063
Accounting	3,824
General Business/Commerce	2,009
Management Information Systems	1,220
Human Resource Management	599
Hospitality Management	441
General Sales & Marketing	383
Entrepreneurial Studies	372

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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