Master's · Pensacola, Florida
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of West Florida 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 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $89,030
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $93,648
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $31,050
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $33k (likely $33k – $33k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $30k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.6–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $102k (likely $23k – $188k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $409k (likely $262k – $595k)
- 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 Florida
- University of Florida$137,404
- University of Miami$128,052
- University of South Florida$112,594
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach$110,336
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide$110,336
- Florida Institute of Technology$107,776
- The University of Tampa$107,130
- Rollins College$105,299
- Jacksonville University$101,213
- Florida International University$99,549