Master's · Waltham, Massachusetts
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Bentley 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 1.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $117,364
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $167,628
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $37,922
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $40k (likely $40k – $40k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $96k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.3 years (likely 1.1–1.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $683k (likely $571k – $797k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.81M (likely $1.51M – $2.15M)
- 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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- Non-Professional Legal Studies (Bachelor's)$148,087
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- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Bachelor's)$122,075
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- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$115,201
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$113,795
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$111,853
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- Business/Managerial Economics (Bachelor's)$108,886
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Massachusetts
- Babson College$178,909
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$165,473
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute$154,407
- Boston College$152,252
- Boston University$147,178
- Tufts University$131,825
- Suffolk University$125,542
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$119,730
- Bridgewater State University$114,541
- Harvard University$113,503