Master's · Romeoville, Illinois
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Lewis University 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 2.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $78,554
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $94,910
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,426
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $32k (likely $32k – $32k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $30k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.4–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $95k (likely $28k – $163k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $482k (likely $315k – $669k)
- 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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- Air Transportation (Bachelor's)$87,197
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$86,275
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- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Master's)$84,837
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Illinois
- Northwestern University$244,399
- University of Chicago$243,256
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$151,907
- DePaul University$144,859
- Loyola University Chicago$129,044
- Northern Illinois University$119,872
- Illinois Institute of Technology$119,075
- University of Illinois Chicago$118,750
- Bradley University$111,907
- Illinois State University$110,971