Bachelor's · Riverside, California
Is Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services at University of California-Riverside 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 9.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $31,302
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $49,738
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,243
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $54k (likely $54k – $64k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $10k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.1 years (likely 6.2–16.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$150k (likely −$218k – −$84k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$9k (likely −$146k – $147k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 75%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Students heading toward languages & cultures majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Spanish Language and Culture (or French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin)
- AP World History: Modern
- AP Human Geography
IB Higher Level
- Language B HL
- History HL or Geography HL
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Other majors at University of California-Riverside
- Medicine (Doctoral)$128,469
- Computer Science (Master's)$127,113
- Medicine (First professional)$126,607
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- Chemistry (Doctoral)$118,789
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$117,705
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Master's)$109,400
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- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$106,742
- Education, General (Doctoral)$105,195
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$102,630
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services at other schools in California
- University of California-Berkeley$76,724
- University of California-Los Angeles$62,927
- University of California-Santa Barbara$61,580
- University of California-Davis$58,443
- University of California-San Diego$55,776
- University of California-Santa Cruz$49,763
- California State University-San Bernardino$49,732
- San Francisco State University$48,959
- San Diego State University$42,922
- California State University-Long Beach$38,996