Master's · Hickory, North Carolina
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Lenoir-Rhyne 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 5.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,148
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $78,179
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,778
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $31k (likely $31k – $31k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.3 years (likely 3.7–8.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$24k (likely −$122k – $71k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $243k (likely $17k – $458k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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