Bachelor's · Fresno, California
Is Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft at California State University-Fresno worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $35,094
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $36,864
- 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
- $23k (likely $23k – $32k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$3k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$237k (likely −$312k – −$161k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$272k (likely −$403k – −$125k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 58%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft at other schools in California
- University of California-Davis$56,823
- University of California-Berkeley$55,555
- Chapman University$51,611
- Pepperdine University$50,594
- Loyola Marymount University$49,135
- California State University-Sacramento$47,676
- San Francisco State University$44,848
- University of California-Santa Barbara$44,106
- California State University-Northridge$43,240
- California State University-Fullerton$42,455