Bachelor's · Los Angeles, California
Is Mathematics at California State University-Los Angeles 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 1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,704
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $75,916
- 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
- $10k (likely $10k – $14k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $36k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1 years (likely 0.6–1.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $149k (likely $49k – $269k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $591k (likely $358k – $871k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$116,182
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$104,208
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$101,094
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$99,093
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$96,577
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$96,014
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor's)$94,760
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,028
Mathematics at other schools in California
- University of California-Los Angeles$99,269
- Occidental College$88,080
- University of California-Santa Barbara$85,391
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$83,187
- University of California-Berkeley$80,654
- California State University-Fullerton$80,055
- University of California-San Diego$79,015
- California State University-Chico$77,891
- University of California-Irvine$77,472
- University of California-Davis$72,640