Master's · Huntsville, Alabama
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Alabama in Huntsville 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $106,386
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $110,477
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,766
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $29k (likely $29k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $52k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in AL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.1 years (likely 0.8–1.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $340k (likely $210k – $493k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $874k (likely $610k – $1.18M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Strayer University-Alabama$76,080
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