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Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

2023 Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California

6 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Marketing program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

Women make up 62% of the marketing majors at the school.

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California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, CA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Lutheran University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. CLU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Thousand Oaks.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Francisco State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. SFSU is a very large public school located in the large city of San Francisco.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Golden Gate University - San Francisco helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular marketing schools in California. Located in the large city of San Francisco, Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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Westcliff University

Irvine, CA

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Westcliff University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular marketing schools in California. Westcliff University is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Irvine.

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United States University

San Diego, CA

Out of the 6 schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, United States University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Diego, USU is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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Best Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Most Popular 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 6 schools only.

  • 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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