Master's · Bronx, New York
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at CUNY Lehman College 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 2.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $79,155
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $91,287
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $23k (likely $23k – $23k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.6 years (likely 2.0–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $50k (likely −$23k – $122k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $369k (likely $194k – $564k)
- 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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- New York University$232,460
- Cornell University$226,632
- Hofstra University$155,876
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- Fordham University$143,127
- Marist University$142,180
- Syracuse University$138,634
- University of Rochester$138,177
- Binghamton University$118,876