Business & management

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

West Virginia University · Morgantown, WV

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$27,360Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Grouped debt estimate$25,000Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's
Annual credentials awarded8Average 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$40,287
Same subject · national$38,289
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: $32,389–$44,432.

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
Washington State UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$52,107
Kent State University at KentEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$41,565
University of ArizonaEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$52,107
University of North Carolina at GreensboroEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$31,314
The University of Texas at San AntonioEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$32,569
San Jose State UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$39,369
Central Michigan UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$39,214
Missouri State University-SpringfieldEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$31,848
Temple UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$42,682
Kansas State UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$41,205
Rowan UniversityEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$49,683
University of North DakotaEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations$31,133
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 ↗