Bachelor's · Dayton, Ohio
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Wright State University-Main Campus 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 4.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,447
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $64,489
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,510
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $58k (likely $58k – $77k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $26k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.2 years (likely 3.6–5.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $9k (likely −$63k – $57k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $321k (likely $204k – $457k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 42%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$107,832
- Medicine (Doctoral)$106,384
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$92,006
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Undergraduate certificate)$90,197
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$89,391
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