Undergraduate certificate · Santa Clarita, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at College of the Canyons worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $71,544
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $21k (likely $21k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.1 years (likely 0.7–1.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $249k (likely $130k – $385k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $619k (likely $368k – $912k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 43%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Associate's)$98,736
- Mathematics (Associate's)$73,088
- Accounting and Related Services (Associate's)$64,025
- Accounting and Related Services (Undergraduate certificate)$60,325
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Associate's)$60,290
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Associate's)$54,179
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Undergraduate certificate)$52,488
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Associate's)$51,561
- Sociology (Associate's)$50,526
- Communication and Media Studies (Associate's)$49,940
- Psychology, General (Associate's)$42,174
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Associate's)$31,847
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