First professional · Orange, California
Is Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration at Chapman University 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 5.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $119,227
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $165,112
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $227,848
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $242k (likely $242k – $242k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $95k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.3 years (likely 4.6–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $210k (likely $66k – $343k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.35M (likely $1.03M – $1.71M)
- 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 Chapman University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$121,592
- Law (First professional)$119,002
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$112,780
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$107,808
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$102,147
- Statistics (Undergraduate certificate)$98,740
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (First professional)$94,016
- Curriculum and Instruction (Doctoral)$91,496
- Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (Master's)$86,167
- Business/Managerial Economics (Bachelor's)$84,978
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$84,482
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$84,378
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration at other schools in California
- University of California-San Francisco$179,523
- Touro University California$175,632
- University of the Pacific$170,067
- University of Southern California$163,791
- Keck Graduate Institute$160,255
- Western University of Health Sciences$159,158
- Loma Linda University$146,986
- California Health Sciences University$108,544
- Marshall B Ketchum University$94,050