Master's · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 0.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $226,452
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $163k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.5 years (likely 0.4–0.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $1.42M (likely $1.28M – $1.58M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $3.15M (likely $2.81M – $3.57M)
- 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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- Business/Commerce, General (Master's)$258,152
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Massachusetts
- Bentley University$130,975
- Boston University$118,168
- Northeastern University$117,139
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$117,139
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$112,856
- Suffolk University$104,109
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$91,958
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$91,064
- Babson College$89,662
- Hult International Business School$87,520