Master's · Montgomery, Alabama
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at South University-Montgomery 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 4.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $71,054
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $79,709
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $43,343
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $46k (likely $46k – $46k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 3.6–5.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $7k (likely −$54k – $76k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $284k (likely $134k – $451k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 5% / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services (Associate's)$50,681
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Alabama
- Auburn University$154,831
- Samford University$119,341
- The University of Alabama$112,515
- University of Alabama at Birmingham$108,063
- University of Alabama in Huntsville$102,853
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- Athens State University$91,314
- Troy University$83,469
- Columbia Southern University$79,103
- Strayer University-Alabama$76,080