Bachelor's · Annville, Pennsylvania
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Lebanon Valley 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 5.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $56,192
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,565
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $119k (likely $119k – $119k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $31k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.8 years (likely 4.6–7.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$8k (likely −$98k – $84k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $374k (likely $166k – $601k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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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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Other majors at Lebanon Valley College
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$107,076
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$105,444
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- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Doctoral)$80,274
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- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Bachelor's)$74,429
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$68,619
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$64,295
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Graduate certificate)$63,836
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication (Bachelor's)$63,128
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$59,559
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University$160,783
- University of Pennsylvania$136,806
- Villanova University$114,211
- Franklin and Marshall College$101,895
- Lehigh University$98,481
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus$95,917
- Gettysburg College$84,973
- Drexel University$84,040
- Temple University$82,570
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia$81,233