Master's · Lakeland, Florida
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Florida Southern College 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $65,355
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $103,876
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,750
- 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
- $39k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.1–4.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $166k (likely $33k – $324k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $662k (likely $355k – $1.02M)
- 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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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$115,730
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$93,335
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- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Doctoral)$77,146
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$76,905
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$72,480
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$65,104
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$62,793
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$58,782
- Political Science and Government (Bachelor's)$57,128
- Curriculum and Instruction (Master's)$54,810
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$53,344
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Florida
- University of Florida$137,404
- University of Miami$128,052
- University of South Florida$112,594
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach$110,336
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide$110,336
- Florida Institute of Technology$107,776
- The University of Tampa$107,130
- Rollins College$105,299
- Jacksonville University$101,213
- Florida International University$99,549