Master's · Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Is Educational Administration and Supervision at Boston College worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 17.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $72,163
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $76,989
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $49,362
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $52k (likely $52k – $52k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $4k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 17.5 years (likely 8.1–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$200k (likely −$270k – −$126k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$145k (likely −$280k – $12k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Boston College
- Law (First professional)$190,940
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$174,350
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$152,252
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$151,547
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$147,746
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$143,204
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (Bachelor's)$132,903
- Information Science/Studies (Bachelor's)$131,090
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$129,436
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$126,475
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$126,461
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$123,144
Educational Administration and Supervision at other schools in Massachusetts
- Endicott College$91,477
- Fitchburg State University$89,717
- American International College$88,373
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$82,921
- Boston University$74,836
- Bay Path University$71,224
- Bridgewater State University$70,965
- Suffolk University$69,052
- Harvard University$66,538
- Merrimack College$64,371