Bachelor's · La Verne, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of La Verne 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 3.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,649
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $82,459
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,360
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $87k (likely $87k – $105k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $42k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.5 years (likely 3.2–4.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $137k (likely $82k – $184k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $649k (likely $513k – $793k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 61%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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 La Verne
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$96,545
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$90,694
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$86,184
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$79,892
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$77,520
- Public Administration (Bachelor's)$75,236
- Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor's)$66,891
- Non-Professional Legal Studies (Bachelor's)$66,373
- Political Science and Government (Bachelor's)$63,107
- Sociology (Bachelor's)$61,350
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Associate's)$59,398
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$58,953
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$144,599
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$110,902
- University of Southern California$109,128
- University of San Francisco$104,390
- Golden Gate University$91,369
- Pepperdine University$91,227
- Dominican University of California$88,913
- University of Redlands$85,278
- Chapman University$84,378
- University of Massachusetts Global$83,778