Bachelor's · Bakersfield, California
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at California State University-Bakersfield 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 0.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $82,054
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,262
- 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
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $17k (likely $17k – $23k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $66k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.6 years (likely 0.4–0.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $448k (likely $284k – $633k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.23M (likely $864k – $1.66M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 48%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$200,543
- University of Southern California$131,532
- University of California-Los Angeles$126,209
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$125,240
- University of California-Santa Cruz$118,290
- University of California-San Diego$118,150
- University of California-Santa Barbara$117,215
- Sonoma State University$112,757
- San Francisco State University$112,454
- University of San Diego$110,314