Bachelor's · Sacramento, California
Is Film/Video and Photographic Arts at California State University-Sacramento 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 11.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $40,426
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $45,534
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,478
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $47k (likely $47k – $66k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $6k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11.3 years (likely 6.9–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$182k (likely −$252k – −$122k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$94k (likely −$208k – $38k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 54%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Film/Video and Photographic Arts at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$70,963
- Chapman University$66,494
- Loyola Marymount University$61,500
- University of Southern California$58,623
- University of California-Davis$57,999
- University of California-Riverside$52,699
- University of California-Irvine$51,423
- University of California-Los Angeles$50,904
- Woodbury University$50,387
- Art Center College of Design$49,933