Master's · Los Angeles, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at California State University-Los Angeles 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 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $91,698
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $135,996
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $36,858
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $39k (likely $39k – $39k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $67k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2 years (likely 1.6–2.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $416k (likely $308k – $538k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.24M (likely $949k – $1.57M)
- 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 at other schools in California
- Stanford University$261,816
- University of California-Los Angeles$223,358
- Santa Clara University$195,995
- University of Southern California$181,250
- University of San Diego$163,311
- Saint Mary's College of California$161,500
- California College of the Arts$157,122
- University of California-Davis$155,416
- California Lutheran University$150,979
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