Master's · San Diego, California
Is Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies at University of San Diego 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 2.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $112,394
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $159,222
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $71,840
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $76k (likely $76k – $76k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $90k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.4 years (likely 1.9–3.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $574k (likely $370k – $802k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.65M (likely $1.16M – $2.18M)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
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Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies at other schools in California
- Loyola Marymount University$140,519
- University of San Francisco$136,623
- Golden Gate University$131,366
- University of California-Los Angeles$112,923
- University of the Pacific$87,881
- University of Southern California$84,932
- Pepperdine University$73,551
- Northcentral University$56,539