Bachelor's · Fort Myers, Florida
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Florida SouthWestern State College 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 1.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $54,207
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $61,367
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,154
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $20k (likely $20k – $28k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.5 years (likely 1.2–2.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $66k (likely $5k – $131k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $377k (likely $245k – $534k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 34%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- 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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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Florida
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach$83,749
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide$83,749
- University of Florida$82,615
- University of Florida-Online$82,615
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- Rasmussen University-Florida$76,176
- University of West Florida$72,805
- Lynn University$72,802
- Florida Institute of Technology$72,717
- University of Central Florida$69,111