Bachelor's · Shreveport, Louisiana
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Louisiana State University-Shreveport 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
- $57,703
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,870
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,413
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $47k (likely $47k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.2–4.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $15k (likely −$56k – $77k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $239k (likely $120k – $353k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 33%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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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 Louisiana
- Tulane University of Louisiana$95,966
- Herzing University-New Orleans$66,379
- Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College$64,590
- Louisiana Tech University$60,949
- McNeese State University$60,532
- University of New Orleans$56,058
- Nicholls State University$54,927
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette$53,473
- University of Louisiana at Monroe$52,842
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana$51,927