Master's · San Bernardino, California
Is Business Administration, Management and Operations at California State University-San Bernardino worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $91,397
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $117,109
- 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
- $48k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 2.0–3.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $237k (likely $135k – $346k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $832k (likely $578k – $1.12M)
- Today's dollars
- 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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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$120,901
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$118,120
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$109,499
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$92,057
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$90,729
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$90,142
- Public Administration (Master's)$85,338
- Social Work (Master's)$81,476
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Master's)$79,868
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$74,845
- Social Work (Bachelor's)$69,201
Business Administration, Management and Operations at other schools in California
- Stanford University$261,816
- University of California-Los Angeles$223,358
- Santa Clara University$195,995
- University of Southern California$181,250
- University of San Diego$163,311
- Saint Mary's College of California$161,500
- California College of the Arts$157,122
- University of California-Davis$155,416
- California Lutheran University$150,979
- University of California-San Diego$149,271