Being the nerdy little twit I am, I was wondering how much XP it would take to reach 15th prestige, and how much I needed to get on a daily basis in order to reach this goal before the next COD releases.

Being unable to find this info online, I set about collecting it level by level. Some was collected during combat training, some on my way to prestige 1, and some on the way to prestige 2. From what I can see so far, the level gaps are the same for each of those, but maybe you peeps can confirm that.

So, how much XP does it take to prestige in Black Ops? 1,262,600.
This is apparently a lot less than MW2, which was apparently over 2,000,000

I figure if I get 60,000XP per day I will prestige every 3 weeks, I should reach level 15 in 48 weeks. That's if I can stick to it and not manage to bore myself to death in the meantime.

15th prestige is 18,939,000 XP.

The level increments generally appear to be grouped in fives, with the increment growing by 100 or 200 every 5 levels. Here they are level by level :

To level 1 - -
To level 2 - 300

600 increment increases
To level 3 - 900
To level 4 - 1500
To level 5 - 2100
To level 6 - 2700

700 increment increases
To level 7 - 3400
To level 8 - 4100
To level 9 - 4800
To level 10 - 5500
To level 11 - 6200

900 increment increases
To level 12 - 7100
To level 13 - 8000
To level 14 - 8900
To level 15 - 9800
To level 16 - 10700

1100 increment increases
To level 17 - 11800
To level 18 - 12900
To level 19 - 14000
To level 20 - 15100
To level 21 - 16200

1200 increment increases
To level 22 - 17400
To level 23 - 18600
To level 24 - 19800
To level 25 - 21000
To level 26 - 22200

1300 increment increases
To level 27 - 23500
To level 28 - 24800
To level 29 - 26100
To level 30 - 27400
To level 31 - 28700

1400 increment increases
To level 32 - 30100
To level 33 - 31500
To level 34 - 32900
To level 35 - 34300
To level 36 - 35700

1500 increment increases
To level 37 - 37200
To level 38 - 38700
To level 39 - 40200
To level 40 - 41700
To level 41 - 43200

1600 increment increases
To level 42 - 44800
To level 43 - 46400
To level 44 - 48000
To level 45 - 49600
To level 46 - 51200

1700 increment increases
To level 47 - 52900
To level 48 - 54600
To level 49 - 56300
To level 50 - 58000

1800 increment increase
To Prestige - 59800