Bachelor's · Hollywood, California
Is Music at Los Angeles Film School worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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
- $33,312
- 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
- $46,476
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $206k (likely $206k – $248k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$6k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 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
- −$482k (likely −$570k – −$440k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$543k (likely −$646k – −$456k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 37%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- University of Redlands$59,275
- University of California-San Diego$58,071
- Biola University$50,781
- University of California-Berkeley$49,985
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music$49,186
- University of Silicon Valley$48,360
- California State University-Long Beach$47,831
- University of California-Los Angeles$47,779
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$44,910