Bachelor's · San Bernardino, California
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at California State University-San Bernardino worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,767
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,298
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $13,899
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $18k (likely $17k – $24k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 2.4–3.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$29k (likely −$86k – $15k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $202k (likely $101k – $319k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at California State University-San Bernardino
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$120,901
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$118,120
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$109,499
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$109,028
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$92,492
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$92,057
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$90,729
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$90,142
- Public Administration (Master's)$85,338
- Social Work (Master's)$81,476
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$79,868
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$74,845
Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in California
- National University$81,299
- Sonoma State University$66,892
- California Baptist University$65,603
- California State University-East Bay$64,835
- San Francisco State University$63,764
- California Lutheran University$63,433
- California State University-Sacramento$62,583
- Humphreys University$60,478
- Point Loma Nazarene University$59,183
- California State University-Long Beach$58,513