Master's · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at University of Pennsylvania worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $153,327
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $114,285
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $80,237
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $85k (likely $85k – $85k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $43k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3 years (likely 2.3–4.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $143k (likely $39k – $251k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $536k (likely $336k – $751k)
- 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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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University$166,093
- Drexel University$155,026
- Villanova University$140,876
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley$139,676
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg$139,676
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- Pennsylvania State University-World Campus$139,676
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