Bachelor's · Ada, Oklahoma
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at East Central 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 3.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,030
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,378
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $37k (likely $37k – $51k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.2 years (likely 2.3–4.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $4k (likely −$76k – $92k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $268k (likely $102k – $460k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 28%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$50,142
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