Bachelor's · Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,633
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $15,650
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $42k (likely $42k – $58k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $56k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.1 years (likely 0.8–1.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $357k (likely $200k – $551k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $949k (likely $623k – $1.37M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 43%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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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 Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$88,953
- Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology$87,302
- Oklahoma Baptist University$73,651
- Southern Nazarene University$71,133
- University of Central Oklahoma$64,107
- Oklahoma State University-Main Campus$64,062
- University of Tulsa$64,026
- Northeastern State University$60,651
- Mid-America Christian University$59,866
- Oral Roberts University$58,754