Bachelor's · LIttle Rock, Arkansas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Arkansas Grantham worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,934
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $66,757
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,650
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $42k (likely $42k – $58k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $31k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.5–2.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $102k (likely $34k – $167k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $414k (likely $298k – $537k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 50%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- 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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Other majors at University of Arkansas Grantham
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Arkansas
- University of Arkansas$79,770
- John Brown University$70,720
- Ouachita Baptist University$66,175
- Harding University$62,025
- University of Central Arkansas$57,826
- Arkansas Tech University$56,643
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock$51,384
- University of the Ozarks$50,789
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith$50,020
- University of Arkansas at Monticello$49,718