Master's · Warrensburg, Missouri
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Central Missouri 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $85,848
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $90,704
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,724
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $31k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.4 years (likely 0.9–2.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $143k (likely $15k – $279k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $477k (likely $208k – $755k)
- 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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- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Undergraduate certificate)$74,156
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Missouri
- Washington University in St Louis$153,933
- Saint Louis University$110,691
- Missouri University of Science and Technology$110,635
- Rockhurst University$103,587
- Southeast Missouri State University$102,877
- University of Missouri-Kansas City$95,148
- Missouri State University-Springfield$93,738
- Lindenwood University$93,500
- Webster University$90,950
- Avila University$86,593