Master's · San Luis Obispo, California
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $107,325
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $141,191
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $22k (likely $22k – $22k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $72k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1 years (likely 0.6–1.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $503k (likely $278k – $736k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.36M (likely $872k – $1.93M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in California
- Stanford University$206,046
- University of California-Berkeley$191,069
- University of San Francisco$186,732
- University of California-Los Angeles$177,710
- University of Southern California$158,632
- University of California-Davis$129,249
- Golden Gate University$111,252
- Santa Clara University$110,071
- California State University-Fullerton$108,748
- California State University-East Bay$100,237