Master's · Providence, Rhode Island
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Johnson & Wales University-Providence worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 9.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $75,322
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $79,293
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $8k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in RI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.4 years (likely 6.7–16.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$147k (likely −$196k – −$106k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$65k (likely −$146k – $23k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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