Master's · Painesville, Ohio
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Lake Erie College 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 4.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $66,371
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $86,804
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $35,261
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $37k (likely $37k – $37k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.4 years (likely 3.3–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $24k (likely −$62k – $112k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $355k (likely $144k – $573k)
- 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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- Education, General (Master's)$49,412
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- Miami University-Oxford$142,034
- Ohio State University-Main Campus$139,427
- University of Cincinnati-Main Campus$126,287
- Ohio University-Main Campus$119,976
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- Case Western Reserve University$117,931
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- University of Akron Main Campus$108,489
- Capital University$108,101
- Baldwin Wallace University$106,526