Master's · Abilene, Texas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Abilene Christian 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $80,756
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $112,969
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $33,761
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $36k (likely $36k – $36k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $50k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.9–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $268k (likely $161k – $385k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $877k (likely $621k – $1.20M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$118,601
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$99,319
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$93,032
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$92,489
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$91,894
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$89,079
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other (Master's)$84,172
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$83,525
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$78,976
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Bachelor's)$70,864
- Engineering, General (Bachelor's)$65,722
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$65,244
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Texas
- Rice University$201,796
- The University of Texas at Austin$197,707
- Southern Methodist University$188,716
- Texas Christian University$151,190
- Texas A&M University-College Station$147,453
- The University of Texas at Dallas$140,481
- University of Houston$138,841
- Baylor University$130,178
- West Texas A & M University$124,819
- The University of Texas at Arlington$115,427