Master's · Bowling Green, Ohio
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Bowling Green State University-Main Campus 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
- $88,372
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $114,046
- 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
- $51k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.9 years (likely 1.6–2.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $299k (likely $217k – $386k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $931k (likely $704k – $1.17M)
- 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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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$89,989
- Engineering-Related Fields (Bachelor's)$89,514
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- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$84,838
- Information Science/Studies (Bachelor's)$84,273
- Psychology, General (Doctoral)$82,522
- Construction Engineering (Bachelor's)$82,365
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$79,291
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$78,182
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Ohio
- Miami University-Oxford$142,034
- Ohio State University-Main Campus$139,427
- University of Cincinnati-Main Campus$126,287
- Ohio University-Main Campus$119,976
- Xavier University$118,223
- Case Western Reserve University$117,931
- Otterbein University$117,614
- University of Akron Main Campus$108,489
- Capital University$108,101
- Baldwin Wallace University$106,526