Are You SMART Enough for STEM and Savvy Enough for SALES?
Even the best-engineered products, services and solutions don’t sell themselves. Success requires skilled professionals to translate technical details into the business language of their customers.
Mastering these skills reaps substantial rewards. Consider the following statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025:
- Technical and scientific sales representatives sell technical and scientific products for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses, government agencies and other organizations and earn a median annual wage of $104,920.
- Sales engineers sell products or services that require technical expertise and earn a median annual wage of $124,900.
- Sales managers set sales goals and direct sales teams and earn a median annual wage of $148,270.
These roles require ambitious people who possess both “hard skills” (e.g., technical knowledge, analytic competence) and “soft skills” (e.g., social skills, clear communication). The Technical Sales Minor focuses on developing these critical skills.
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