Master's · Plainview, Texas
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Wayland Baptist University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 4.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $65,921
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $90,683
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $40,270
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $28k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.4 years (likely 3.6–5.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $46k (likely −$27k – $122k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $408k (likely $236k – $611k)
- 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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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$67,250
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- Curriculum and Instruction (Master's)$62,364
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$57,805
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$53,900
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Associate's)$52,052
- Human Services, General (Bachelor's)$48,921
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Bachelor's)$47,700
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$46,932
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