Bachelor's · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Chestnut Hill College 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 4.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,614
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $71,843
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $92k (likely $92k – $120k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $33k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.8 years (likely 3.7–6.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $27k (likely −$66k – $137k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $430k (likely $230k – $674k)
- 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
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$95,650
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$80,579
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$65,756
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$62,814
- Security Science and Technology (Bachelor's)$60,744
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$59,588
- Human Services, General (Master's)$59,051
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$57,831
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Bachelor's)$51,339
- Business/Corporate Communications (Bachelor's)$48,643
- Human Services, General (Bachelor's)$48,375
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$47,591
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University$160,783
- University of Pennsylvania$136,806
- Villanova University$114,211
- Franklin and Marshall College$101,895
- Lehigh University$98,481
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus$95,917
- Gettysburg College$84,973
- Drexel University$84,040
- Temple University$82,570
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia$81,233