Bachelor's · Aliso Viejo, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Massachusetts Global 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 5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $68,495
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $89,988
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,096
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $152k (likely $152k – $211k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $50k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5 years (likely 4.4–6.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $112k (likely −$5k – $171k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $701k (likely $528k – $867k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 0%
- 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 Massachusetts Global
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$152,157
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$118,581
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$99,745
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$92,027
- Education, General (Master's)$91,710
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$88,158
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$84,909
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$81,233
- Public Administration (Master's)$77,787
- Criminology (Bachelor's)$75,745
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$74,187
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$144,599
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$110,902
- University of Southern California$109,128
- University of San Francisco$104,390
- Golden Gate University$91,369
- Pepperdine University$91,227
- Dominican University of California$88,913
- University of Redlands$85,278
- Chapman University$84,378
- Notre Dame de Namur University$83,441