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2023 Best Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

2 Colleges
$74,199 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

With 1,328 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, marketing is the #77 most popular major in California.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

View our full ranking methodology.

2023 Best Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for marketing majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top California Schools for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Marketing

Our 2023 rankings named University of Southern California the best school in California for marketing students working on their graduate certificate. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.

Full Marketing at University of Southern California Report

#2

California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, CA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at California Lutheran University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best marketing schools in California. CLU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Thousand Oaks.

Read full report on Marketing at California Lutheran University

Best Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 1,109
Oregon 477
Nevada 311
Hawaii 128
Alaska 19

Marketing is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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