Master's · Moraga, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at Saint Mary's College of California worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 1.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $122,458
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $173,471
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $50,364
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $53k (likely $53k – $53k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $105k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.5 years (likely 1.3–1.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $758k (likely $629k – $900k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.99M (likely $1.67M – $2.40M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at Saint Mary's College of California
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Master's)$108,918
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$107,570
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$107,437
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$90,166
- Dance (Master's)$89,283
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$86,092
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$81,166
- Business/Commerce, General (Bachelor's)$80,262
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (Master's)$73,293
- Psychology, General (Bachelor's)$70,123
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (Bachelor's)$68,501
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (Bachelor's)$66,265
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in California
- Stanford University$261,816
- University of California-Los Angeles$223,358
- Santa Clara University$195,995
- University of Southern California$181,250
- University of San Diego$163,311
- California College of the Arts$157,122
- University of California-Davis$155,416
- California Lutheran University$150,979
- University of California-San Diego$149,271
- University of California-Irvine$148,411