Bachelor's · Clarksville, Arkansas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of the Ozarks worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 5.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,554
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,726
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $73k (likely $73k – $93k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.4 years (likely 3.4–10.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$47k (likely −$164k – $73k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $176k (likely −$46k – $436k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 48%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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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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- Harding University$62,025
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- University of Arkansas at Little Rock$51,384
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith$50,020
- University of Arkansas at Monticello$49,718