Master's · Boston, Massachusetts
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at Boston 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 1.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $114,543
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $126,927
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $39,910
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $42k (likely $42k – $42k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $54k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.6 years (likely 1.2–2.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $323k (likely $181k – $477k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $968k (likely $655k – $1.32M)
- 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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- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$136,667
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology$210,825
- Bentley University$130,975
- Northeastern University$117,139
- Northeastern University Professional Programs$117,139
- University of Massachusetts-Boston$112,856
- Suffolk University$104,109
- University of Massachusetts-Lowell$91,958
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst$91,064
- Babson College$89,662
- Hult International Business School$87,520