Business & management

Arts, Entertainment,and Media Management

University of Akron Main Campus · Akron, OH

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$17,239Institution-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$63,501
Same subject · national$40,197
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: $55,484–$74,982.

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
Northern Illinois UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Management Information Systems and Services, Taxation$74,490
Purdue University NorthwestBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$86,867
University of Central MissouriAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$55,399
Arkansas State UniversityAgricultural Business and Management, Business Administration, Management and Operations$52,728
Central Connecticut State UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Construction Management$76,460
Oakland UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Human Resources Management and Services$64,087
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical CampusAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Economics, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services, Marketing$69,237
New Mexico State University-Main CampusAccounting and Related Services, Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies$55,512
Saginaw Valley State UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$57,318
Prairie View A & M UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$54,046
University of South AlabamaAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$62,914
Louisiana Tech UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$84,653
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 ↗