Bachelor's · Tulsa, Oklahoma
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $87,618
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $93,773
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $31,090
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $134k (likely $134k – $187k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $58k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in OK
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.4 years (likely 2.7–4.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $242k (likely $116k – $368k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $870k (likely $627k – $1.13M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 57%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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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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Other majors at Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
- Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians (Undergraduate certificate)$54,749
- Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians (Associate's)$48,533
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians (Associate's)$46,290
- Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians (Undergraduate certificate)$45,418
- Air Transportation (Associate's)$37,011
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus$88,953
- Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology$81,586
- Oklahoma Baptist University$73,651
- Southern Nazarene University$71,133
- University of Central Oklahoma$64,107
- Oklahoma State University-Main Campus$64,062
- University of Tulsa$64,026
- Northeastern State University$60,651
- Mid-America Christian University$59,866
- Oral Roberts University$58,754