Bachelor's · Winona Lake, Indiana
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Grace College and Theological Seminary 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 4.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,630
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $71,533
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,125
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $78k (likely $78k – $78k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $33k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.5–5.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $52k (likely −$24k – $141k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $462k (likely $283k – $659k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 60%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Other majors at Grace College and Theological Seminary
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$66,779
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- Design and Applied Arts (Bachelor's)$51,338
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Indiana
- Purdue University-Main Campus$81,040
- Valparaiso University$78,163
- Franklin College$77,821
- Taylor University$76,192
- Ball State University$75,703
- Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion$75,533
- Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global$75,533
- Saint Mary's College$73,449
- Indiana University-Indianapolis$72,282
- University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne$70,794