First professional · Davis, California
Is Law at University of California-Davis worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $109,436
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $146,955
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $130,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $138k (likely $138k – $138k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $78k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4 years (likely 3.6–4.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $211k (likely $101k – $310k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.15M (likely $887k – $1.42M)
- Today's dollars
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 5%
- 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.
Other majors at University of California-Davis
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$163,702
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$155,416
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$150,872
- Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (First professional)$149,260
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$145,917
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$145,422
- Medicine (First professional)$144,130
- Physics (Doctoral)$141,034
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other (Master's)$138,731
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$138,673
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Master's)$137,579
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$130,291
Law at other schools in California
- Stanford University$259,944
- University of California-Berkeley$226,996
- University of Southern California$203,028
- University of California-Los Angeles$177,968
- University of California-Irvine$153,307
- Santa Clara University$148,599
- Loyola Marymount University$143,361
- University of California College of the Law-San Francisco$136,001
- University of San Diego$134,065
- Chapman University$119,002