Marketing at Rhode Island College

If you are interested in studying marketing, you may want to check out the program at Rhode Island College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 7,072 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,463 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rhode Island College in 2021, 41 of them were marketing majors.

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

RIC Marketing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing

RIC Marketing Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The marketing major at RIC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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 Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	696
Best Marketing Schools	863
Best Value Marketing Schools	869

Earnings of RIC Marketing Graduates

The median salary of marketing students who receive their bachelor's degree at RIC is $32,541. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $41,682 for all marketing students.

Marketing Student Demographics at RIC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the marketing majors at Rhode Island College.

RIC Marketing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 56% of marketing bachelor's degrees went to men and 44% went to women. The typical marketing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at RIC since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in marketing at RIC are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its marketing bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island College with a bachelor's in marketing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	21
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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

Related Majors

• Finance & Financial Management
• Management Information Systems
• Accounting
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Marketing Grads May Go Into

A degree in 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 RI, the home state for Rhode Island College.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists	2,060	$72,180
Sales Managers	740	$161,970
Marketing Managers	670	$159,400
Business Professors	400	$127,400
Advertising and Promotions Managers	70	$118,380

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 Arctichistorian01 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.