Master's · West Lafayette, Indiana
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Purdue University-Main Campus 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 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $102,881
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $142,586
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $50,549
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $54k (likely $54k – $54k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $78k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2 years (likely 1.7–2.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $515k (likely $410k – $622k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.44M (likely $1.19M – $1.76M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Agricultural Business and Management (Master's)$155,217
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- Veterinary Medicine (First professional)$123,596
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- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$121,462
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Indiana
- Butler University$125,011
- Oakland City University$101,855
- Anderson University$97,811
- University of Indianapolis$96,630
- Indiana State University$95,438
- University of Southern Indiana$93,352
- Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion$92,437
- Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global$92,437
- Purdue University Northwest$88,461
- University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne$87,446