Bachelor's · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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
- $50,919
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $69,377
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,625
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $82k (likely $82k – $111k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $34k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.8–5.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $66k (likely −$10k – $117k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $472k (likely $337k – $614k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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📈 Getting ready in high school
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 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$120,107
- Veterinary Medicine (First professional)$116,717
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$114,226
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$108,539
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$106,897
- Construction Management (Master's)$106,632
- Law (First professional)$103,602
- Petroleum Engineering (Bachelor's)$103,421
- Construction Management (Post-baccalaureate certificate)$103,041
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$99,975
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$95,302
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Louisiana
- Tulane University of Louisiana$95,966
- Herzing University-New Orleans$66,379
- Louisiana Tech University$60,949
- McNeese State University$60,532
- University of New Orleans$56,058
- Nicholls State University$54,927
- Louisiana State University-Shreveport$54,808
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette$53,473
- University of Louisiana at Monroe$52,842
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana$51,927