Master's · Dallas, Texas
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Southern Methodist University 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 2.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $129,820
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $151,235
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $87,346
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $93k (likely $93k – $93k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $88k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.2 years (likely 1.9–2.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $589k (likely $500k – $694k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.64M (likely $1.38M – $1.93M)
- 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 Texas
- Texas A&M University-College Station$183,813
- Rice University$166,012
- The University of Texas at Austin$128,909
- The University of Texas at San Antonio$128,404
- The University of Texas at Dallas$124,603
- East Texas A&M University$120,549
- University of North Texas$91,548
- University of Dallas$89,232
- University of Houston$78,473
- Texas Christian University$76,440