Bachelor's · Kansas City, Missouri
Is Business/Commerce, General at University of Missouri-Kansas City 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
- $56,560
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $68,281
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $58k (likely $58k – $81k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $30k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.5 years (likely 3.0–4.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $50k (likely −$26k – $98k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $409k (likely $287k – $534k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 56%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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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Business/Commerce, General at other schools in Missouri
- University of Missouri-Columbia$84,534
- Avila University$83,385
- University of Missouri-St Louis$65,373
- Lindenwood University$63,524
- Columbia College$61,958
- Missouri State University-Springfield$56,215
- Missouri Southern State University$55,286
- Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences$51,274
- Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies$51,274