Master's · Searcy, Arkansas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Harding 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $72,164
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $118,375
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $62k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.2 years (likely 0.9–1.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $433k (likely $320k – $582k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.20M (likely $914k – $1.55M)
- 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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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$124,272
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$119,507
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$115,516
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$92,014
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$81,717
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$80,311
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (First professional)$79,976
- Theological and Ministerial Studies (Master's)$79,289
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$76,668
- Information Science/Studies (Master's)$76,630
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$73,601
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$72,039
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Arkansas
- University of Arkansas$157,358
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock$106,341
- John Brown University$97,702
- University of Arkansas Grantham$89,959
- University of Central Arkansas$88,939
- Southern Arkansas University Main Campus$83,587
- Strayer University-Arkansas$76,080
- Arkansas State University$73,394
- Arkansas Tech University$66,733