Master's · Weatherford, Oklahoma
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Southwestern Oklahoma State 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $70,426
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $84,537
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,019
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $24k (likely $24k – $24k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.7 years (likely 1.7–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $77k (likely −$35k – $202k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $404k (likely $156k – $693k)
- 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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- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (Bachelor's)$119,270
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$101,663
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$89,549
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Graduate certificate)$75,396
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$73,912
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Associate's)$73,780
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (Master's)$69,430
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Bachelor's)$64,751
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$58,594
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$53,999
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$51,927
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$145,191
- Oklahoma State University-Main Campus$111,874
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University$105,483
- University of Tulsa$105,347
- Oklahoma City University$96,193
- University of Central Oklahoma$91,003
- Oklahoma Baptist University$85,996
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University$84,951
- Northeastern State University$81,944
- Southern Nazarene University$79,567