Bachelor's · Pomona, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 2.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $55,387
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $76,213
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $13,775
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $40k (likely $40k – $56k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $36k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.6 years (likely 2.4–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $116k (likely $47k – $155k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $545k (likely $433k – $685k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- 47% / ≤ 1%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Computer Science (Master's)$141,744
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$128,133
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$113,294
- Civil Engineering (Master's)$110,863
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- University of California-Berkeley$144,599
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$110,902
- University of Southern California$109,128
- University of San Francisco$104,390
- Golden Gate University$91,369
- Pepperdine University$91,227
- Dominican University of California$88,913
- University of Redlands$85,278
- Chapman University$84,378
- University of Massachusetts Global$83,778