Master's · Northridge, California
Is Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at California State University-Northridge 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $82,367
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $89,884
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.2 years (likely 2.6–8.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$11k (likely −$143k – $129k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $250k (likely −$28k – $535k)
- 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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Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology at other schools in California
- Chapman University$107,808
- California State University-Long Beach$100,315
- Loyola Marymount University$100,264
- University of Massachusetts Global$99,745
- San Francisco State University$96,854
- Fresno Pacific University$96,593
- University of Southern California$96,014
- Golden Gate University$95,577
- Touro University Worldwide$89,314
- University of San Francisco$88,276