Master's · Hackettstown, New Jersey
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Centenary 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 1.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $94,323
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $118,210
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $30,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $33k (likely $33k – $33k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $49k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.4–2.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $280k (likely $172k – $401k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $892k (likely $626k – $1.21M)
- 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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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in New Jersey
- Rutgers University-Camden$155,535
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick$155,535
- Rutgers University-Newark$155,535
- Stevens Institute of Technology$121,825
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus$120,131
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus$120,131
- New Jersey Institute of Technology$119,814
- Montclair State University$117,544
- Thomas Edison State University$111,672
- Monmouth University$109,288