Bachelor's · Chattanooga, Tennessee
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Miller-Motte College-Chattanooga 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 18 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $44,453
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $57,190
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $105k (likely $105k – $142k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $7k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 18 years (likely 10.5–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$235k (likely −$323k – −$159k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$147k (likely −$287k – $7k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 51%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
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- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
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- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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- Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians (Undergraduate certificate)$42,738
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Tennessee
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville$82,074
- Lipscomb University$80,751
- Rhodes College$77,838
- Belmont University$71,384
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga$66,554
- University of Memphis$65,045
- Carson-Newman University$64,503
- Bryan College-Dayton$64,283
- Middle Tennessee State University$63,928
- Fisk University$63,733