Bachelor's · Riverside, California
Is Music at University of California-Riverside worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $41,017
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,035
- 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
- $3k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$204k (likely −$287k – −$113k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$174k (likely −$335k – $19k)
- 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
Change income, residency or loans Compare Music at other schools
Other majors at University of California-Riverside
- Medicine (Doctoral)$128,469
- Computer Science (Master's)$127,113
- Medicine (First professional)$126,607
- Engineering, General (Master's)$122,820
- Research and Experimental Psychology (Doctoral)$119,816
- Chemistry (Doctoral)$118,789
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$117,705
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Master's)$109,400
- Computer Engineering (Bachelor's)$107,193
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$106,742
- Education, General (Doctoral)$105,195
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Bachelor's)$102,630
Music at other schools in California
- Sonoma State University$65,533
- University of Redlands$59,275
- University of California-San Diego$58,071
- Biola University$50,781
- University of California-Berkeley$49,985
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music$49,186
- University of Silicon Valley$48,360
- California State University-Long Beach$47,831
- University of California-Los Angeles$47,779
- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona$44,910