Bachelor's · Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Sioux Falls 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,384
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $53,978
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,449
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $91k (likely $91k – $114k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in SD
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.3 years (likely 5.4–14.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$132k (likely −$209k – −$59k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$2k (likely −$131k – $138k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 64%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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📈 Getting ready in high school
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 University of Sioux Falls
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$86,706
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- Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor's)$42,847
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in South Dakota
- Dakota State University$69,841
- Augustana University$68,463
- University of South Dakota$64,890
- Black Hills State University$59,626
- Mount Marty University$59,205
- National American University-Rapid City$57,756
- Northern State University$56,571
- Oglala Lakota College$56,375
- Dakota Wesleyan University$48,437