Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing at Kent State University at Kent

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

Kent State is located in Kent, Ohio and has a total student population of 26,822. Of the 5,120 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University at Kent in 2021, 278 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.

Kent State Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Specialized Marketing

Kent State Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Rankings

The specialized marketing major at Kent State 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.

Earnings of Kent State Specialized Marketing Graduates

The median salary of specialized marketing students who receive their bachelor's degree at Kent State is $36,188. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 10% higher than the national average of $32,868 for all specialized marketing bachelor's degree recipients.

Specialized Marketing Student Demographics at Kent State

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

Kent State Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 278 students earned a bachelor's degree in specialized marketing from Kent State. About 94% of these graduates were women and the other 6% were men.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in specialized marketing at Kent State 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 Kent State University at Kent with a bachelor's in specialized marketing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	193
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Human Resource Management
• Construction Management

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 OH, the home state for Kent State University at Kent.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives	53,700	$67,790
Retail Sales Supervisors	41,240	$43,080
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	13,300	$77,960
Parts Salespersons	10,460	$31,790
Sales Supervisors	8,670	$80,390

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 JonRidinger under License

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