Master's · La Jolla, California
Is Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at University of California-San Diego worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $104,245
- 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
- $62,155
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $66k (likely $66k – $66k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $39k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.1 years (likely 2.4–3.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $133k (likely $41k – $239k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $547k (likely $349k – $785k)
- 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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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods at other schools in California
- Stanford University$206,046
- University of California-Berkeley$191,069
- University of San Francisco$186,732
- University of California-Los Angeles$177,710
- University of Southern California$158,632
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$131,448
- University of California-Davis$129,249
- Golden Gate University$111,252
- Santa Clara University$110,071
- California State University-Fullerton$108,748