Bachelor's · Lima, Ohio
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Northwestern Ohio worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $59,281
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,572
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $28,584
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $98k (likely $93k – $132k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $22k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OH
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.2 years (likely 4.7–8.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$85k (likely −$177k – −$16k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $122k (likely $2k – $244k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- 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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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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- Miami University-Oxford$95,796
- University of Dayton$92,317
- Ohio State University-Main Campus$85,586
- Bowling Green State University-Main Campus$79,291
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- Walsh University$75,364
- Tiffin University$74,964
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- Ohio University-Eastern Campus$71,478