Bachelor's · Normal, Alabama
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Alabama A & M University 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
- $54,114
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $62,488
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $77k (likely $77k – $108k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $28k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 3.5–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $22k (likely −$62k – $112k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $371k (likely $207k – $567k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 28%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Auburn University$80,323
- Samford University$76,584
- The University of Alabama$69,715
- Columbia Southern University$69,343
- Spring Hill College$69,108
- Tuskegee University$67,529
- Athens State University$67,349
- Herzing University-Birmingham$66,379
- Troy University$63,472
- University of Alabama at Birmingham$63,036