Master's · Los Angeles, California
Is Public Health at California State University-Los Angeles 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
- $67,315
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,062
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $27k (likely $27k – $27k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $1k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out 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
- −$181k (likely −$289k – −$47k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$164k (likely −$394k – $127k)
- 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-Los Angeles
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$137,184
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$126,611
- Civil Engineering (Master's)$120,651
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$118,058
- 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
Public Health at other schools in California
- Touro University California$143,582
- University of California-Los Angeles$110,900
- University of California-Irvine$95,681
- University of Southern California$95,642
- Los Angeles Pacific University$92,519
- Claremont Graduate University$91,103
- University of San Francisco$90,920
- California State University-Long Beach$88,743
- West Coast University-Anaheim-Orange County$86,490
- University of California-Berkeley$86,225