Master's · Alamosa, Colorado
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Adams State University 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 3.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $90,305
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $80,086
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $39,333
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $42k (likely $42k – $42k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.8 years (likely 1.9–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$46k (likely −$163k – $99k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $77k (likely −$159k – $361k)
- 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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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder$137,635
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$136,709
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$129,423
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- Colorado State University Global$102,672
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$96,850
- Regis University$91,772
- Metropolitan State University of Denver$91,342
- Colorado Christian University$86,926
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