Bachelor's · Thousand Oaks, California
Is Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at California Lutheran 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 6.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $65,313
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,842
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $112k (likely $112k – $114k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.2 years (likely 4.4–8.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$52k (likely −$138k – $46k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $246k (likely $58k – $446k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 69%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at California Lutheran University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$150,979
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$101,050
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$97,243
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$95,459
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$89,573
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$87,918
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$83,310
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$82,204
- Marketing (Master's)$81,263
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$81,041
- Public Administration (Master's)$77,919
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$77,030
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at other schools in California
- Saint Mary's College of California$68,501
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$68,171
- Antioch University-Los Angeles$66,596
- Antioch University-Santa Barbara$66,596
- Dominican University of California$65,780
- University of California-Riverside$62,211
- California State University-Dominguez Hills$62,164
- Loyola Marymount University$62,148
- Westmont College$61,939
- California State University-Long Beach$60,019