Master's · Saint Paul, Minnesota
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Hamline University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $103,208
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $108,474
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $42k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.5–2.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $208k (likely $113k – $305k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $648k (likely $460k – $864k)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Hamline University
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$108,829
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$104,535
- Public Administration (Master's)$93,090
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$72,945
- Education, General (Master's)$72,271
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Graduate certificate)$70,862
- Non-Professional Legal Studies (Bachelor's)$65,460
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$64,303
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (Master's)$63,668
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$63,173
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Master's)$62,193
- Legal Support Services (Undergraduate certificate)$61,388
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Minnesota
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities$162,817
- University of St Thomas$149,456
- Saint Cloud State University$141,749
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$125,059
- Concordia University-Saint Paul$113,086
- Augsburg University$108,125
- St Catherine University$105,176
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota$105,165
- Capella University$96,768
- Bethel University$96,278