Bachelor's · Tacoma, Washington
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Puget Sound worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 5.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $54,704
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $83,336
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,736
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $138k (likely $138k – $178k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $40k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.8 years (likely 5.0–7.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $7k (likely −$96k – $83k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $481k (likely $303k – $682k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- 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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📈 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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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Washington
- City University of Seattle$99,735
- Washington State University$81,321
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus$78,771
- University of Washington-Bothell Campus$78,771
- University of Washington-Tacoma Campus$78,771
- Columbia Basin College$77,260
- Pacific Lutheran University$75,576
- Whitworth University$75,038
- Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs$75,038
- Central Washington University$73,036