Master's · West Palm Beach, Florida
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Palm Beach Atlantic 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 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $74,391
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $78,330
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,382
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $30k (likely $30k – $30k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 2.4–8.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$42k (likely −$134k – $58k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $114k (likely −$65k – $315k)
- 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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- University of Florida$137,404
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- 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