Bachelor's · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs 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 4.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $60,410
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,760
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $34,769
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $76k (likely $76k – $102k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $27k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 4.1–5.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$16k (likely −$102k – $16k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $309k (likely $197k – $424k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 19%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- 12% / 4.0%
- 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 Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs
- Computer Science (Doctoral)$165,750
- Computer Science (Master's)$126,865
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$103,076
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$101,101
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Doctoral)$99,321
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$98,538
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$95,519
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$85,337
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Bachelor's)$84,277
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$78,606
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$67,660
- Homeland Security (Master's)$66,872
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder$86,441
- Colorado State University Global$83,415
- Regis University$81,628
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$79,256
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$75,142
- University of Northern Colorado$74,278
- Colorado Christian University$72,519
- Colorado Mesa University$69,297
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$66,553
- Metropolitan State University of Denver$65,387