Bachelor's · Jersey City, New Jersey
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at New Jersey City University 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 3.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,319
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $64,367
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,125
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $45k (likely $45k – $62k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.3 years (likely 2.7–4.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $11k (likely −$62k – $71k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $319k (likely $184k – $462k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 39%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- 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 Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in New Jersey
- Stevens Institute of Technology$108,400
- Thomas Edison State University$89,947
- The College of New Jersey$85,978
- Rutgers University-Camden$83,606
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick$83,606
- Rutgers University-Newark$83,606
- Monmouth University$78,591
- Drew University$76,232
- New Jersey Institute of Technology$75,805
- Caldwell University$74,113