Bachelor's · Ontario, California
Is Communication and Media Studies at DeVry University-California 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 13 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
- $55,588
- 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
- $155k (likely $155k – $209k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 13 years (likely 8.8–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$219k (likely −$330k – −$127k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$42k (likely −$213k – $142k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 39%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$93,642
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- Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications (Graduate certificate)$91,271
- Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$88,911
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$88,594
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$87,024
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$86,645
- Accounting and Related Services (Graduate certificate)$84,386
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- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$80,445
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- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$75,225
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- Santa Clara University$84,206
- Northeastern University Oakland$80,191
- University of Southern California$75,864
- University of California-Berkeley$75,612
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$75,223
- Chapman University$73,461
- University of California-Santa Barbara$72,976
- University of California-Davis$72,778
- Loyola Marymount University$69,144
- University of San Diego$68,913