Business & management

Economics

SUNY Buffalo State University · Buffalo, NY

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$18,906Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded8Average 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$57,189
Same subject · national$64,290
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: $53,760–$71,042.

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
Fayetteville State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$67,660
Indiana University-NorthwestBusiness/Commerce, General$77,715
Western Illinois UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management$57,318
Angelo State UniversityAccounting and Related Services$53,358
Clayton State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$53,894
Prairie View A & M UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$54,046
Pennsylvania State University-World CampusAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods$86,867
Georgia Southwestern State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$52,941
Kean UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$57,060
University of Houston-Clear LakeAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$69,236
Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$46,087
Central Connecticut State UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Construction Management$76,460
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 ↗