Master's · Los Angeles, California
Is Public Health at University of California-Los Angeles 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 3.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $96,981
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $119,120
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $60,860
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $65k (likely $65k – $65k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $50k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.1 years (likely 2.6–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $236k (likely $155k – $312k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $863k (likely $650k – $1.08M)
- 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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- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$228,705
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Public Health at other schools in California
- Touro University California$143,582
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- University of Southern California$95,642
- Los Angeles Pacific University$92,519
- Claremont Graduate University$91,103
- University of San Francisco$90,920
- California State University-Long Beach$88,743
- West Coast University-Anaheim-Orange County$86,490
- University of California-Berkeley$86,225
- University of California-San Francisco$84,632