Master's · Boone, North Carolina
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Appalachian 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $75,231
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $101,116
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,387
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $41k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.4–2.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $218k (likely $115k – $325k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $717k (likely $492k – $978k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Appalachian State University
- Physics (Master's)$111,173
- Computer Software and Media Applications (Master's)$107,500
- Computer Software and Media Applications (Graduate certificate)$104,433
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$97,670
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Master's)$96,218
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$93,013
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$91,173
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$87,377
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$87,041
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$85,580
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$83,033
- Physics (Bachelor's)$82,399
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in North Carolina
- Duke University$222,160
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$203,447
- Wake Forest University$135,677
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$127,702
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$122,997
- Queens University of Charlotte$120,405
- Wingate University$120,390
- University of North Carolina Wilmington$118,289
- Elon University$105,377
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$104,581