General Sales & Marketing at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying general sales and marketing, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 134 students received a bachelor's degree in sales and marketing from Purdue.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the sales and marketing progam at Purdue 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 sales and 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Sales & Marketing Schools	62

Earnings of Purdue Sales & Marketing Graduates

The median salary of sales and marketing students who receive their bachelor's degree at Purdue is $56,811. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 18% higher than the national average of $48,013 for all sales and marketing bachelor's degree recipients.

Sales & Marketing Student Demographics at Purdue

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

Purdue General Sales & Marketing Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 134 sales and marketing majors earned their bachelor's degree from Purdue. Of these graduates, 60% were men and 40% were women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sales and 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 and marketing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	105
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

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 and 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.