Master's · New Haven, Connecticut
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Southern Connecticut State 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
- $78,157
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $103,388
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,735
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $33k (likely $33k – $33k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $28k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CT
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.7 years (likely 2.7–5.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $46k (likely −$59k – $157k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $435k (likely $160k – $700k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Connecticut
- Yale University$234,034
- University of Connecticut$150,756
- University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus$150,756
- University of Connecticut-Avery Point$150,756
- University of Connecticut-Stamford$150,756
- University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus$150,756
- University of Hartford$126,408
- Fairfield University$112,565
- Quinnipiac University$109,384
- Central Connecticut State University$105,899