Master's · Bakersfield, California
Is Public Administration 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $74,911
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $91,432
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $31,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $33k (likely $33k – $33k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 2.3–8.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $17k (likely −$133k – $186k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $333k (likely $4k – $726k)
- 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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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$120,351
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$97,998
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,797
- Education, General (Master's)$92,010
- Engineering Science (Bachelor's)$88,948
- Social Work (Master's)$86,527
- Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy (Bachelor's)$82,315
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$82,248
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$80,432
- Economics (Bachelor's)$78,029
- Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences (Bachelor's)$69,989
Public Administration at other schools in California
- Golden Gate University$122,598
- San Francisco State University$108,093
- University of Southern California$103,721
- California State University-East Bay$99,879
- University of San Francisco$99,141
- California Baptist University$98,056
- Notre Dame de Namur University$93,465
- California State University-Northridge$92,353
- San Diego State University$91,303
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey$89,916