Master's · Boulder, Colorado
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Colorado Boulder 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
- $107,278
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $147,837
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $52,317
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $55k (likely $55k – $55k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $84k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.7–2.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $567k (likely $475k – $659k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.57M (likely $1.30M – $1.86M)
- Today's dollars
- 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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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at University of Colorado Boulder
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$170,375
- Computer Science (Master's)$148,463
- Engineering, General (Master's)$146,964
- Physics (Doctoral)$130,362
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$125,007
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$121,952
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering (Master's)$120,144
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering (Bachelor's)$116,350
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$115,960
- Law (First professional)$109,411
- Chemistry (Doctoral)$107,618
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$100,631
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Colorado
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$136,709
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$129,423
- University of Denver$120,934
- 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
- University of Northern Colorado$85,071
- Western Colorado University$74,959