General Sales & Marketing at Purdue University - Main Campus

Every general sales & marketing school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the sales & marketing program at Purdue University - Main Campus stacks up to those at other schools.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year.

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

Purdue General Sales & Marketing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sales & Marketing

Purdue General Sales & Marketing Rankings

The sales & marketing major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Sales & 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.

Sales & Marketing Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the sales & marketing majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue General Sales & Marketing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of sales & marketing bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical sales & marketing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 44% men. So male students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sales & marketing at Purdue 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 Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in sales & marketing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	68
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Concentrations Within General Sales & Marketing

If you plan to be a sales & marketing major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Purdue University - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Professional Sales	134

Related Majors

• Marketing
• Accounting
• Hospitality Management
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management

Careers That Sales & Marketing Grads May Go Into

A degree in sales & 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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives	29,910	$71,610
Retail Sales Supervisors	25,130	$40,280
Sales Representatives	15,050	$66,610
Wholesale Scientific Products Sales Representatives	7,540	$101,460
Parts Salespersons	5,990	$32,820

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.