Bachelor's · River Falls, Wisconsin
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Wisconsin-River Falls 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 3.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,349
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,365
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,700
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $62k (likely $62k – $81k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $29k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.6 years (likely 3.1–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $38k (likely −$23k – $92k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $400k (likely $271k – $549k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- 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 University of Wisconsin-River Falls
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- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$62,733
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Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$100,005
- Edgewood University$96,101
- Milwaukee School of Engineering$86,550
- Marquette University$81,670
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh$79,228
- Rasmussen University-Wisconsin$76,176
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater$73,415
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee$72,507
- Carthage College$72,468
- Viterbo University$70,009