Bachelor's · Corpus Christi, Texas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $47,460
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $61,019
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $16,916
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $59k (likely $59k – $81k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 3.5–5.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$2k (likely −$81k – $74k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $299k (likely $147k – $465k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 38%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 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
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- Southern Methodist University$106,799
- Texas Christian University$106,765
- The University of Texas at Austin$94,458
- Baylor University$85,961
- Texas A&M University-College Station$82,213
- Texas Tech University$75,702
- University of North Texas$75,657
- University of Houston$73,125
- Dallas Baptist University$72,897
- West Texas A & M University$71,979