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Bachelor's Degree Marketing

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College Degree Marketing
Type: Bachelor of Science
College: College of Business
Career Pathway: Human Services

Why Major in Marketing?

If you choose to major in marketing there are a host of career opportunities available to you. Career paths might include e-commerce, marketing analysis, professional selling, advertising, supply chain management, marketing research and a host of other customer service/leadership positions.

One out of every five presidents or chief executive officers in the nation's top 500 businesses was, as an undergraduate, a marketing major. Further, salaries open to marketing graduates from Ferris State University compare very favorably to salaries received in highly technical and specialized non-business careers.

As a student of the Ferris State University marketing degree program, you will be provided the opportunity to:

  • Engage in a number of internship activities
  • Learn how to develop, execute and control complex marketing strategy
  • Choose from concentrations - such as Marketing, Sales, E-commerce, Retailing, or choose the diversified concentration which allows you to complete a certificate or minor to complement your marketing major
  • Build information-based analytical decision-making skills and apply research results in developing successful marketing degree programs
  • You will be exposed to an exciting set of concepts that will serve you, not just in marketing, but in any career field in which you become a manager or leader and are required to influence others to accomplish the tasks you face together in day-to-day activities.

Marketing College Graduates Get Great Jobs

Many of our marketing graduates have gone on to major leadership positions in industrial marketing, radio and television, entertainment, food service, television news, web-based businesses, as well as with such organizations as hospitals, government agencies, social service organizations and charities.

Further, you always have the option of seeking a career path as a successful entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, the marketing skills you learn will help increase the likelihood your business ventures will be successful.

Finally, oftentimes great marketers become dynamic sales people who serve in consulting and marketing management positions that eventually lead to the highest levels of organization leadership. Your ability to be both a marketer and a professional sales person will serve you well as you progress in your career.

Bachelor's Degree Marketing
Admission Requirements

Applicants must present evidence of graduation from high school or GED. To enter a Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) Program in Business, applicants are expected to meet two of the following: a minimum high school grade point average of 2.50 (on a 4.00 scale); ACT math score of 19 or higher; an ACT reading score of 19 or higher.

College Degree Marketing
Graduation Requirements

The marketing degree program leads to a Bachelor of Science degree. Graduation requires a minimum 2.0 GPA in business core courses, the major courses and overall.

More Information on Marketing
Bachelor's Degree Programs at Ferris State University

Marketing Department
Marketing Degree
Ferris State University
119 South Street/BUS 212
Big Rapids, Michigan MI (USA) 49307-2284
Phone: (231) 591-2426

About Ferris State University: College classes including our Marketing degree program, are taught at all levels by professional teachers, not graduate assistants. College students that major in Marketing at Ferris State University, study in more than 170 different college educational programs - including doctorate degrees, masters degrees, bachelors degree Marketing and associate degree Marketing programs.

Seven of the Ferris State Michigan colleges are based in Big Rapids, Michigan - Allied Health Sciences, Arts and Sciences, College of Business, Education and Human Services, Optometry, Pharmacy and Technology. The Ferris State College of Professional and Technological studies, and Kendall College of Art and Design are based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. College courses in Marketing are sometimes offered at several Michigan College campus sites through the Ferris State University Center for Extended Learning.

Approximately 220 student organizations are active on our Michigan college campus, encompassing everything from Marketing, the Accounting Club, Chess Club to Men's and Women's Rugby; Bulldog Radio to the Juggling Club; and the Dead Poet's Society to the Paintball Club.

The wide range of student organizations and academic support groups caters to support Marketing students social, athletic, political, academic, performing arts, and additional interests. Ferris State University continues to be a top technical and professional academic institution, providing accredited college education to make its Marketing degree and college students that major in Marketing are immediately employable upon graduation.