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Professional Sales at Purdue University - Main Campus

Professional Sales at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you plan to study professional sales, take a look at what Purdue University - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and has a total student population of 46,655.

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

Purdue Professional Sales Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Sales

Purdue Professional Sales Rankings

The sales major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Professional Sales. 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 Student Demographics at Purdue

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

Purdue Professional Sales Bachelor’s Program

33% Women
22% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 67% of sales bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women.

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About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in sales at Purdue are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its sales bachelor's program than the national average.*

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.

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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

Careers That Sales Grads May Go Into

A degree in sales 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
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
Sales Supervisors 4,180 $91,800

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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