Master's · Denver, Colorado
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Colorado State University 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $98,359
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $110,282
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $40,366
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $46k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2 years (likely 1.7–2.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $262k (likely $201k – $326k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $837k (likely $662k – $1.02M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Colorado State University Global
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$113,193
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$102,553
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$102,553
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$102,355
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$95,673
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$95,518
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$94,688
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$94,130
- International Business (Master's)$92,506
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$91,204
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$90,296
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$83,415
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder$137,635
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$136,709
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$129,423
- University of Denver$120,934
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$96,850
- Regis University$91,772
- Metropolitan State University of Denver$91,342
- Colorado Christian University$86,926
- University of Northern Colorado$85,071
- Western Colorado University$74,959