Master's · Hayward, California
Is Special Education and Teaching at California State University-East Bay worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $81,031
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $87,820
- 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
- $19k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 1.5–5.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $9k (likely −$92k – $121k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $245k (likely $31k – $489k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at California State University-East Bay
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$176,801
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$154,918
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$150,921
- Statistics (Master's)$142,606
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$121,899
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$119,900
- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$119,067
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$109,423
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$103,608
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$100,237
- Public Administration (Master's)$99,879
- Social Work (Master's)$96,198
Special Education and Teaching at other schools in California
- California State University-Los Angeles$104,208
- California State University-Fullerton$95,677
- California State University-Dominguez Hills$95,089
- Notre Dame de Namur University$94,588
- California State University-Long Beach$91,444
- University of San Francisco$89,791
- Point Loma Nazarene University$86,603
- National University$85,908
- California State University-Northridge$85,826
- Loyola Marymount University$85,524