Master's · Rockford, Illinois
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Rockford University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 2.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $78,252
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $97,504
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,235
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $32k (likely $32k – $32k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.0–4.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $113k (likely −$12k – $246k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $527k (likely $249k – $840k)
- 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 Illinois
- Northwestern University$244,399
- University of Chicago$243,256
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$151,907
- DePaul University$144,859
- Loyola University Chicago$129,044
- Northern Illinois University$119,872
- Illinois Institute of Technology$119,075
- University of Illinois Chicago$118,750
- Bradley University$111,907
- Illinois State University$110,971