Master's · Elmhurst, Illinois
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Elmhurst University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 1.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $108,651
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $126,518
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $33,437
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $35k (likely $35k – $35k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $60k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.4 years (likely 1.0–2.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $408k (likely $241k – $611k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.16M (likely $770k – $1.62M)
- 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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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Illinois
- University of Chicago$204,727
- Northwestern University$180,186
- University of Illinois Chicago$125,094
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$106,780
- Lewis University$87,205
- DePaul University$82,471
- Northern Illinois University$79,769
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$64,930
- University of St Francis$63,075