Master's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Suffolk 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 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $101,577
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $134,847
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $61,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $65k (likely $65k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $63k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 2.3–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $336k (likely $222k – $448k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.09M (likely $815k – $1.41M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- 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.
Other majors at Suffolk University
- Business/Managerial Economics (Master's)$195,072
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (Doctoral)$123,199
- Taxation (Master's)$114,731
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$107,236
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$104,109
- Law (Doctoral)$103,969
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$99,661
- Public Administration (Master's)$92,015
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$90,090
- Information Science/Studies (Bachelor's)$86,406
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$86,396
- Marketing (Master's)$85,595
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Massachusetts
- Babson College$178,909
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$165,473
- Bentley University$156,061
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute$154,407
- Boston College$152,252
- Boston University$147,178
- Tufts University$131,825
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$119,730
- Bridgewater State University$114,541
- Harvard University$113,503