Bachelor's · Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Rider 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 4.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $67,400
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $74,569
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,155
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $105k (likely $105k – $113k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $35k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.6–5.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $58k (likely −$22k – $125k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $471k (likely $299k – $635k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 62%
- 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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Other majors at Rider University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$106,939
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$103,295
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$91,950
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$88,405
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$82,193
- Public Administration (Master's)$82,011
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$80,672
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$79,664
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$76,780
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$72,734
- Human Resources Management and Services (Bachelor's)$70,122
- International Business (Bachelor's)$69,451
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