Morehead State Marketing (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Marketing
- Public university
- Morehead, KY
- About 15 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Morehead State marketing graduates earn less than graduates of most marketing programs nationally, $38,636 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $25,900 in federal loans, close to the national median of $24,250. Several Kentucky programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Kentucky and national columns are the medians across all marketing bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Morehead State graduates earn less than the national figure and about $4,900 less than the Kentucky median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Kentucky marketing program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Kentucky 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 39% 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 $275 a month, or 8.5% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
72% of graduates (18 of 25) were working in Kentucky one year after graduating. Prices in the parts of Kentucky outside metro areas are about 15% below the national average, so a $38,636 salary here buys what about $45,320 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
$61,480Median pay in Kentucky. 6,290 people work in this job in Kentucky. 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
$128,650Median pay in Kentucky. 6,650 people work in this job in Kentucky. 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
$128,930Median pay in Kentucky. 1,930 people work in this job in Kentucky. 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
$77,000Median pay in Kentucky. 590 people work in this job in Kentucky. 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 Morehead State
Marketing ranks 7th of 27 bachelor's programs at Morehead State by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($70,523), Diagnostic and Treatment Professions ($64,504), and Engineering-Related Fields ($62,330).
Other marketing bachelor's programs near Morehead
Common questions
The median graduate earns $38,636 one year after graduating and $53,788 five years after. The median across marketing bachelor's programs in Kentucky is $45,042.
The median federal loan balance is $25,900, which ranks 7th lowest of 7 marketing bachelor's programs in Kentucky. That works out to about $275 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 67% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 53%. Compare the cost with other Kentucky programs before deciding.
Most do. 72% (18 of 25) were working in Kentucky one year after graduating.
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 Kentucky 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