Bachelor's · Knoxville, Tennessee
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 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 2.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $72,465
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $88,157
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $78k (likely $78k – $100k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $51k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.6 years (likely 2.3–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $247k (likely $176k – $294k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $852k (likely $703k – $1.01M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 74%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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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Other majors at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- Industrial Engineering (Master's)$150,903
- Computer Science (Master's)$135,764
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$132,036
- Veterinary Medicine (First professional)$123,713
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$123,330
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$120,482
- Chemistry (Doctoral)$114,312
- Engineering, Other (Doctoral)$113,720
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$112,342
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$112,249
- Psychology, General (Doctoral)$108,390
- Industrial Engineering (Bachelor's)$107,093
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Tennessee
- Lipscomb University$80,751
- Rhodes College$77,838
- Belmont University$71,384
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga$66,554
- University of Memphis$65,045
- Carson-Newman University$64,503
- Bryan College-Dayton$64,283
- Middle Tennessee State University$63,928
- Fisk University$63,733
- Union University$63,234