Loras College Marketing (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Marketing
- Private nonprofit college
- Dubuque, IA
- About 20 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Loras College marketing graduates earn about what marketing graduates earn nationally, $46,541 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $27,000 in federal loans, more than at 79% of marketing programs in the country. Several Iowa programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Iowa and national columns are the medians across all marketing bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Loras College graduates earn more than the national figure and about $9,158 more than the Iowa median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Iowa marketing program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Iowa medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 59% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $286 a month, or 7.4% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
Prices in the Dubuque area are about 13% below the national average, so a $46,541 salary here buys what about $53,294 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to marketing, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
$66,390Median pay in Iowa. 8,880 people work in this job in Iowa. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 82,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Sales Managers
$134,010Median pay in Iowa. 3,260 people work in this job in Iowa. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 47,300 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Marketing Managers
$131,120Median pay in Iowa. 2,210 people work in this job in Iowa. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 34,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus 5 years or more of related work experience.
Web and Digital Interface Designers
$69,060Median pay in Iowa. 670 people work in this job in Iowa. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 8,300 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
About Loras College
Marketing ranks 4th of 10 bachelor's programs at Loras College by first-year earnings. The top three are Accounting ($61,147), Finance ($59,434), and Criminal Justice ($47,413).
Other marketing bachelor's programs near Dubuque
Common questions
The median graduate earns $46,541 one year after graduating and $74,007 five years after. The median across marketing bachelor's programs in Iowa is $47,374.
The median federal loan balance is $27,000, which ranks 8th lowest of 11 marketing bachelor's programs in Iowa. That works out to about $286 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 58% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 53%. Compare the cost with other Iowa programs before deciding.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Iowa comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the marketing program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024