Master's · Stockton, California
Is Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies at University of the Pacific worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 3.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $82,862
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $94,395
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $41,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $43k (likely $43k – $43k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.8 years (likely 2.4–7.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $34k (likely −$102k – $184k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $372k (likely $72k – $736k)
- 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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- University of San Diego$148,235
- Loyola Marymount University$140,519
- University of San Francisco$136,623
- Golden Gate University$131,366
- University of California-Los Angeles$112,923
- University of Southern California$84,932
- Pepperdine University$73,551
- Northcentral University$56,539