Bachelor's · Riverside, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at La Sierra University 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 7.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $39,602
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $61,159
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $97k (likely $97k – $107k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.3 years (likely 5.4–10.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$92k (likely −$173k – $4k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $176k (likely −$5k – $405k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 52%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$95,296
- Curriculum and Instruction (Master's)$77,289
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$70,945
- Social Work (Bachelor's)$69,244
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$59,153
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Bachelor's)$55,711
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Bachelor's)$53,902
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$51,085
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$49,265
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$48,040
- Biology, General (Bachelor's)$29,115
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$144,599
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$110,902
- University of Southern California$109,128
- University of San Francisco$104,390
- Golden Gate University$91,369
- Pepperdine University$91,227
- Dominican University of California$88,913
- University of Redlands$85,278
- Chapman University$84,378
- University of Massachusetts Global$83,778