Master's · Seaside, California
Is Education, General at California State University-Monterey 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 1.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $79,595
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $86,248
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $12,433
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $13k (likely $13k – $13k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.8 years (likely 1.0–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $9k (likely −$90k – $117k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $219k (likely $27k – $455k)
- 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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Education, General at other schools in California
- California State University-Sacramento$102,444
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$95,883
- California State University-San Marcos$95,348
- California State University-Bakersfield$92,010
- University of Massachusetts Global$91,710
- University of San Diego$91,474
- California State University-East Bay$91,220
- Stanford University$88,065
- Sonoma State University$87,304
- Notre Dame de Namur University$86,768