Bachelor's · Siloam Springs, Arkansas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at John Brown University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 3.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,309
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $75,962
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $95k (likely $95k – $107k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $40k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 3.0–4.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $134k (likely $41k – $228k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $603k (likely $411k – $835k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 77%
- 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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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$97,702
- Engineering, General (Bachelor's)$90,783
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$82,703
- Business/Commerce, General (Bachelor's)$78,800
- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$76,406
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- Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions (Master's)$49,897
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Bachelor's)$48,188
- Design and Applied Arts (Bachelor's)$47,248
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$47,076
- International/Globalization Studies (Bachelor's)$45,322
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$40,222
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Arkansas
- University of Arkansas$79,770
- Ouachita Baptist University$66,175
- University of Arkansas Grantham$62,150
- Harding University$62,025
- University of Central Arkansas$57,826
- Arkansas Tech University$56,643
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock$51,384
- University of the Ozarks$50,789
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith$50,020
- University of Arkansas at Monticello$49,718