Bachelor's · Princess Anne, Maryland
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Maryland Eastern Shore 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 6.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $45,981
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,893
- 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
- $74k (likely $74k – $102k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MD
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.3 years (likely 4.4–9.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$80k (likely −$174k – $25k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $194k (likely −$3k – $409k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 35%
- 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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- Johns Hopkins University$147,384
- Loyola University Maryland$93,753
- University of Maryland-College Park$86,590
- University of Maryland Global Campus$79,801
- McDaniel College$78,830
- Hood College$78,503
- Towson University$78,497
- Bowie State University$70,427
- Salisbury University$66,519
- Goucher College$65,402