Doctoral · San Diego, California
Is Educational Administration and Supervision at San Diego State 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 1.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $161,821
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $169,725
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $60,963
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $65k (likely $65k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $99k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.2 years (likely 0.9–1.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $515k (likely $305k – $766k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.56M (likely $1.13M – $2.05M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$165,564
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$120,799
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- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$116,842
- Psychology, General (Master's)$111,549
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$110,830
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- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$106,416
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$103,392
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$100,586
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Educational Administration and Supervision at other schools in California
- San Francisco State University$157,979
- California State University-East Bay$154,918
- University of Massachusetts Global$152,157
- California State University-Fullerton$141,254
- University of California-Los Angeles$140,028
- University of Southern California$138,552
- Loyola Marymount University$134,109
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$132,932
- University of California-Davis$130,291
- Concordia University-Irvine$128,949