Master's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Northeastern University 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $117,972
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $125,821
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $33,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $36k (likely $36k – $36k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $54k 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 1.0–1.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $320k (likely $204k – $453k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $910k (likely $663k – $1.18M)
- 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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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology$210,825
- Bentley University$130,975
- Boston University$118,168
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$117,139
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$112,856
- Suffolk University$104,109
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- Babson College$89,662
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