Bachelor's · Aliso Viejo, California
Is Psychology, General at University of Massachusetts Global 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 9.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $50,266
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $63,197
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,167
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $152k (likely $152k – $211k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.5 years (likely 7.7–12.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$150k (likely −$268k – −$82k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $140k (likely −$27k – $296k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 0%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- 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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Psychology, General at other schools in California
- Santa Clara University$75,742
- University of San Diego$74,178
- University of Southern California$70,461
- Saint Mary's College of California$70,123
- National University$66,849
- University of San Francisco$65,071
- Azusa Pacific University$63,963
- Notre Dame de Namur University$63,847
- Chapman University$63,617
- University of California-Berkeley$62,835