The University of Wisconsin, Madison was listed as the No. 1 university for a marketing career, according to a March 28 study bookyourdata.com shared with Becker's.
The company based its rankings on the following: admission rates, completion rates, median graduation earnings, the average cost of tuition, average costs of books, average cost of housing, and average total cost of the above expenses subtracting scholarships and grants.
Below are the 10 top-ranked institutions for marketing careers and their median earnings of graduates after one year:
- University of Wisconsin, Madison: $73,247
- University of Pennsylvania: $112,878
- University of Southern California: $113,473
- Saint Joseph's University: $87,310
- Texas A&M University: $70,264
- University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: $76,032
- Kettering University: $104,767
- Vanderbilt University: $108,764
- Michigan State University: $62,038
- CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College: $55,817