Bachelor's · Lowell, Massachusetts
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Massachusetts-Lowell 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 3.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $63,304
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $81,482
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,300
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $74k (likely $74k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $38k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.5 years (likely 3.2–4.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $90k (likely $3k – $132k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $541k (likely $412k – $685k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- 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 / ≤ 2%
- 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 University of Massachusetts-Lowell
- Computer Science (Master's)$151,603
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$137,144
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$132,707
- Computer Engineering (Master's)$130,170
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$128,785
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- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$119,763
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- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$117,288
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Massachusetts
- Boston College$123,144
- Boston University$108,412
- Babson College$107,520
- Bentley University$99,514
- Wentworth Institute of Technology$97,183
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$92,623
- Clark University$84,234
- Endicott College$79,846
- Stonehill College$79,796
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts)$78,769