Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists

Research market conditions in local, regional, or national areas, or gather information to determine potential sales of a product or service, or create a marketing campaign. May gather information on competitors, prices, sales, and methods of marketing and distribution.

Programs That Prepare You

College programs linked to this occupation, ranked by graduate earnings

Marketing(masters)University of Pennsylvania, PA

$183,993

Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations(masters)Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia, PA

$151,768

Marketing(postbacc-cert)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, NC

$117,557

Marketing(masters)University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

$117,372

Marketing(grad-cert)University of Southern California, CA

$117,305

Economics(bachelors)Harvard University, MA

$103,993

Economics(bachelors)Princeton University, NJ

$103,041

Economics(masters)Johns Hopkins University, MD

$100,054

Marketing(masters)Southern Methodist University, TX

$99,698

Economics(bachelors)Duke University, NC

$98,649

Economics(bachelors)Stanford University, CA

$98,104

Economics(bachelors)Dartmouth College, NH

$94,675

Economics(bachelors)University of Chicago, IL

$92,075

Economics(bachelors)Amherst College, MA

$90,568

Economics(bachelors)Claremont McKenna College, CA

$89,505

Economics(bachelors)University of Pennsylvania, PA

$89,097

Marketing(masters)Vanderbilt University, TN

$88,966

Marketing(masters)University of Southern California, CA

$88,627

Economics(doctoral)George Mason University, VA

$87,415

Economics(masters)University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, OK

$87,013

Economics(masters)American University, DC

$86,903

Economics(bachelors)Wellesley College, MA

$86,367

Economics(bachelors)Carnegie Mellon University, PA

$86,284

Economics(bachelors)Middlebury College, VT

$85,879

Economics(bachelors)Barnard College, NY

$85,860