Master's · San Marcos, California
Is Public Health at California State University-San Marcos worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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
- $62,855
- 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
- $36,177
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $38k (likely $38k – $38k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$3k 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
- −$247k (likely −$326k – −$166k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$278k (likely −$437k – −$104k)
- 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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- 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