Master's · Los Angeles, California
Is Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at University of California-Los Angeles 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 fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 0.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $156,485
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $187,754
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,666
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $25k (likely $25k – $25k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $119k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.5 years (likely 0.4–0.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $997k (likely $793k – $1.21M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $2.43M (likely $1.93M – $2.93M)
- Today's dollars
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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-Los Angeles
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$228,705
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$223,358
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$216,722
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$190,499
- Physics (Doctoral)$178,137
- Law (First professional)$177,968
- Engineering, General (Master's)$177,858
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$177,710
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$170,827
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering (Master's)$151,186
- Materials Engineering (Master's)$146,629
- Medicine (First professional)$143,434
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at other schools in California
- Santa Clara University$196,786
- Stanford University$181,705
- University of Southern California$180,468
- University of California-San Diego$169,987
- University of California-Berkeley$162,352
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$158,977
- University of California-Davis$145,917
- California State University-Los Angeles$118,058
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$113,294
- California State University-Fullerton$108,857