Associate's · Temecula, California
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at San Joaquin Valley College-Temecula worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 9.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $44,310
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $47,372
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,351
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $56k (likely $56k – $56k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $7k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.9 years (likely 7.5–14.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$78k (likely −$109k – −$50k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $5k (likely −$57k – $74k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 80%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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