Bachelor's · Little Rock, Arkansas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Philander Smith University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 11.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $37,974
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $46,362
- 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
- $94k (likely $94k – $125k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $10k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11.8 years (likely 7.3–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$176k (likely −$263k – −$83k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$28k (likely −$194k – $161k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 36%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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