Master's · San Luis Obispo, California
Is Civil Engineering at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Earnings are reported, but there isn't enough cost data to estimate payback.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $95,197
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $113,861
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $44k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
No cost figure is reported, so payback and net return can't be computed.
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Civil Engineering at other schools in California
- University of Southern California$130,675
- California State University-Los Angeles$120,651
- University of California-San Diego$112,223
- Stanford University$112,118
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$110,863
- California State University-Fullerton$108,826
- California State University-Sacramento$108,193
- University of California-Davis$106,894
- California State University-Long Beach$105,034
- California State University-Northridge$104,388