Bachelor's · Birmingham, Alabama
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Alabama at Birmingham worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,351
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $67,708
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $66k (likely $66k – $88k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $33k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.4 years (likely 2.9–4.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $99k (likely $28k – $154k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $504k (likely $366k – $645k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 66%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Other majors at University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Dentistry (First professional)$162,018
- Optometry (First professional)$145,890
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$141,379
- Public Health (Graduate certificate)$140,663
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$136,395
- Systems Science and Theory (Master's)$124,712
- Engineering, General (Master's)$118,501
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$117,049
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$115,581
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$114,503
- Medicine (First professional)$112,084
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$108,063
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Alabama
- Auburn University$80,323
- Samford University$76,584
- The University of Alabama$69,715
- Columbia Southern University$69,343
- Spring Hill College$69,108
- Tuskegee University$67,529
- Athens State University$67,349
- Herzing University-Birmingham$66,379
- Troy University$63,472
- University of Alabama in Huntsville$62,872