Bachelor's · New Orleans, Louisiana
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Tulane University of Louisiana 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $74,416
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $103,079
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,525
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $173k (likely $173k – $173k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $67k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.2 years (likely 3.7–4.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $280k (likely $184k – $381k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.07M (likely $839k – $1.32M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 87%
- 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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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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- 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
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- Louisiana State University-Shreveport$54,808
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette$53,473
- University of Louisiana at Monroe$52,842
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana$51,927