Business & management

Business/Managerial Economics

Harvard University · Cambridge, MA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$59,076Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded3Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Master's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$147,592
Same subject · national$69,255
Business & management · national$63,005

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $106,474–$163,980.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Stanford UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$163,337
Columbia University in the City of New YorkBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Construction Management, Management Information Systems and Services, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods$135,742
Yale UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Natural Resources Management and Policy$109,017
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBusiness/Commerce, General$165,236
University of ChicagoBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$159,442
University of PennsylvaniaBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, Marketing, Real Estate$169,894
Northeastern UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Business/Commerce, General, Finance and Financial Management Services, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, Taxation$88,510
Vanderbilt UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services, Marketing$111,620
Duke UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Economics, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, International Business, Natural Resources Management and Policy$76,460
Dartmouth CollegeBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$167,295
Northwestern UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Business/Commerce, General, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods$163,561
Johns Hopkins UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Business/Commerce, General, Economics, Finance and Financial Management Services, Real Estate$98,847
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗