Master's · San Bernardino, California
Is Public Administration at California State University-San Bernardino 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 5.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $73,541
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $91,663
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $50,875
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $54k (likely $54k – $54k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.5 years (likely 3.9–8.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$30k (likely −$129k – $81k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $276k (likely $40k – $555k)
- 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-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
- Social Work (Master's)$81,476
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$79,868
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$74,845
- Social Work (Bachelor's)$69,201
Public Administration at other schools in California
- Golden Gate University$122,598
- San Francisco State University$108,093
- University of Southern California$103,721
- California State University-East Bay$99,879
- University of San Francisco$99,141
- California Baptist University$98,056
- Notre Dame de Namur University$93,465
- California State University-Northridge$92,353
- San Diego State University$91,303
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey$89,916