Bachelor's · Indianapolis, Indiana
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Butler University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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
- $82,723
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $159k (likely $159k – $176k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $47k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.5 years (likely 3.2–6.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $112k (likely −$41k – $310k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $607k (likely $305k – $1.03M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 77%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$93,584
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$79,612
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- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$73,943
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- University of Notre Dame$124,557
- Purdue University-Main Campus$93,976
- Indiana State University$92,741
- Valparaiso University$86,317
- Ball State University$77,774