Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing at Eastern Illinois University

If you are interested in studying specialized sales, merchandising and marketing, you may want to check out the program at Eastern Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,076 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois University in 2021, 2 of them were specialized sales, merchandising and marketing majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing section at the bottom of this page.

EIU Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Specialized Marketing

EIU Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the specialized marketing progam at EIU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The specialized marketing major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Specialized Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48

Specialized Marketing Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the specialized marketing majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor’s Program

Of the 2 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing from EIU in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in specialized marketing at EIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in specialized marketing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

EIU also has a doctoral program available in specialized marketing. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Hospitality Management
• Human Resource Management
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• Construction Management
• Marketing

Careers That Specialized Marketing Grads May Go Into

A degree in specialized marketing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives	70,300	$68,510
Retail Sales Supervisors	38,510	$42,880
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	21,980	$91,640
Parts Salespersons	9,810	$34,840
Sales Supervisors	6,310	$76,080

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.