Business & management

Business Administration, Management and Operations

Missouri Southern State University · Joplin, MO

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$16,800Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$23,621Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's
Annual credentials awarded6Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

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

Selected degree estimate$37,928
Same subject · national$41,937
Business & management · national$42,682

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $34,615–$42,290.

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.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
University of Maine at Presque IsleBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$35,060
Metropolitan State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$49,784
University of the Virgin IslandsBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$25,194
West Texas A & M UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$36,401
Western Colorado UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$33,281
SUNY College of Technology at CantonBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$36,488
Dakota State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$39,369
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State HarrisburgBusiness Administration, Management and Operations · shared campus reporting$47,595
West Virginia State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$29,141
California State University-East BayBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$47,676
Alabama State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$39,369
University of Colorado Colorado SpringsBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$40,521
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 ↗