Bachelor's · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Point Park University 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 7.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $63,359
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $57,285
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $110k (likely $110k – $127k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.6 years (likely 5.0–13.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$116k (likely −$199k – −$26k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $48k (likely −$108k – $214k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 54%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Point Park University
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$91,649
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$90,722
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$89,825
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$88,525
- Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations (Master's)$86,554
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Undergraduate certificate)$83,862
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$74,639
- Curriculum and Instruction (Master's)$67,919
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication (Bachelor's)$55,545
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$54,901
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication (Bachelor's)$49,951
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$47,830
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