Bachelor's · Marshall, Minnesota
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Southwest Minnesota State 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $66,075
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $59,677
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $70k (likely $70k – $91k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.7 years (likely 3.3–7.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$79k (likely −$151k – −$5k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $75k (likely −$43k – $217k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 48%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$91,237
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$68,009
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$67,751
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$64,654
- Education, General (Master's)$60,873
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- Marketing (Bachelor's)$58,574
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Bachelor's)$54,554
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$47,249
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Bachelor's)$47,219
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- Capella University$87,997
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- College of Saint Benedict$78,901
- Bethel University$77,059
- Concordia University-Saint Paul$77,037
- Rasmussen University-Minnesota$76,176
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota$74,942
- Saint Johns University$74,762