Master's · Canyon, Texas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at West Texas A & M 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 1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $111,872
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $134,071
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,434
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $30k (likely $30k – $30k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $71k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1 years (likely 0.9–1.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $522k (likely $441k – $596k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.38M (likely $1.15M – $1.62M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at West Texas A & M University
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$143,805
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$121,970
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$118,510
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$117,518
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,938
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$93,925
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$89,631
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$83,825
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$79,583
- Public Administration (Bachelor's)$74,261
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$71,979
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$67,693
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Texas
- Rice University$201,796
- The University of Texas at Austin$197,707
- Southern Methodist University$188,716
- Texas Christian University$151,190
- Texas A&M University-College Station$147,453
- The University of Texas at Dallas$140,481
- University of Houston$138,841
- Baylor University$130,178
- The University of Texas at Arlington$115,427
- University of Dallas$111,746