Master's · Thousand Oaks, California
Is Student Counseling and Personnel Services at California Lutheran University worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $73,170
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $88,297
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $53,096
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $56k (likely $56k – $56k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.3 years (likely 4.5–9.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$60k (likely −$154k – $35k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $218k (likely −$4k – $432k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at California Lutheran University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$150,979
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$101,050
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$97,243
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$95,459
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$89,573
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$87,918
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$83,310
- Marketing (Master's)$81,263
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$81,041
- Public Administration (Master's)$77,919
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$77,030
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$76,916
Student Counseling and Personnel Services at other schools in California
- Fresno Pacific University$94,232
- San Francisco State University$91,778
- Concordia University-Irvine$91,553
- California State University-Los Angeles$88,659
- California State University-East Bay$85,452
- Alliant International University-San Diego$84,805
- California State University-Dominguez Hills$84,789
- California State University-Bakersfield$82,248
- University of Redlands$82,138
- Chapman University$81,239