Southeast Missouri State Marketing (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Marketing
- Public university
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- About 26 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Southeast Missouri State marketing graduates earn about what marketing graduates earn nationally, $42,482 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $20,678 in federal loans, less than at 78% of marketing programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying marketing degrees in Missouri.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Missouri and national columns are the medians across all marketing bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Southeast Missouri State graduates earn about the national figure and about the same as the Missouri median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Missouri marketing program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Missouri 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 47% 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 $219 a month, or 6.2% 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
73% of graduates (19 of 26) were working in Missouri one year after graduating. Prices in the Cape Girardeau area are about 14% below the national average, so a $42,482 salary here buys what about $49,353 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
$70,140Median pay in Missouri. 14,890 people work in this job in Missouri. 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
$115,370Median pay in Missouri. 7,630 people work in this job in Missouri. 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
$130,550Median pay in Missouri. 6,550 people work in this job in Missouri. 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
$70,970Median pay in Missouri. 1,210 people work in this job in Missouri. 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 Southeast Missouri State
Marketing ranks 9th of 29 bachelor's programs at Southeast Missouri State by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($68,302), Information Technology ($62,891), and Computer and Information Science ($58,964).
Other marketing bachelor's programs near Cape Girardeau
Common questions
The median graduate earns $42,482 one year after graduating and $62,254 five years after. The median across marketing bachelor's programs in Missouri is $42,900.
The median federal loan balance is $20,678, which ranks 3rd lowest of 10 marketing bachelor's programs in Missouri. That works out to about $219 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 49% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 53%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Missouri programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
Most do. 73% (19 of 26) were working in Missouri 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 Missouri 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