CIP 5208 · Master's Degree · California Lutheran University

Finance and Financial Management Services at California Lutheran University

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of California Lutheran University. 29 completers in the most recent 4-year window (39 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $118,504.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$118,504
California CIP-4 median $135,370
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$97,162
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
29
39 most recent year
SECTION 02 · PROGRAM HISTORY

How this program has shifted

Federal Field-of-Study history covers 2014–15 onward. Vintage-by-vintage values for earnings, debt, and completers.

DEBT · 20142016$38,260
$51,188$38,26020142016
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201929
712920142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
DEBT_MEDIAN · 20142016-25%

Finance and Financial Management Services at California Lutheran University · debt_median fell

51,188 → 38,260

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome of this program

Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. Selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. This is an outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.

Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.

NET PRESENT VALUE
$1,152,233
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 9
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 9year 0year 39
Cost per year
$23,759
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
Years to complete
6
CIP family
52

Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.

PEER COMPARISON · CIP 5208

Finance and Financial Management Services across California institutions

Same CIP-4 code and credential level, all California Title-IV institutions where Scorecard publishes outcomes. Cohort floor is 30 students.

USCPEER$135,370
California Lutheran UniversityTHIS PROGRAM$118,50429 grads
University of San FranciscoPEER$108,7560 grads
SUPPRESSION & SELECTION

What this page tells you, and what it doesn't

Earnings are median annual earnings of federally aided students who completed this program at this institution, drawn from federal tax records. They describe cohorts. They do not predict your earnings, and they do not claim that this program caused those outcomes — selection effects (who enrolls, who finishes, what fields they enter) dominate cross-program differences. Em-dashes mean the federal data was suppressed because the cohort was below the 30-student floor.

Methodology →