CIP 0403 · Master's Degree · UCLA

City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at UCLA

Federal outcomes for master's degree graduates of UCLA. 57 completers in the most recent 4-year window (66 in the latest year alone). Median earnings 5 years after completion: $90,536.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 5Y
$90,536
California CIP-4 median $95,803
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 4Y
$80,116
Treasury · 4y post-completion
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$51,793
At program completion
COMPLETERS · 4Y WINDOW
57
66 most recent year
DEBT-TO-EARNINGS

What this program's debt costs its graduates

Annual debt service as a share of median 5-year-post-completion earnings, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation.

This program at UCLA

7.6%
0%8% · GE20%+

Median federal debt $51,793 amortized over 10 years vs. median 5-year earnings $90,536.

Statewide CIP-4 peer median

7.2%
0%8% · GE20%+

Same debt against the California CIP 0403 peer-median earnings $95,803.

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 · 20142018$51,793
$63,500$45,06320142018
Median federal debt at program exit.FoS
COMPLETERS · 2014201957
755720142019
Annual completers (IPEDS C).IPEDS
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
$726,507
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 9
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
graduationbreakeven · year 9year 0year 39
Cost per year
$11,065
HS-only baseline · CA
$41,880
Years to complete
6
CIP family
04

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 0403

City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning across California institutions

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

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 →