Graduates of California State University-Channel Islands earn about $8,518 more than the model expects for similar students. That places the university at the 80th percentile for earnings beyond expectations among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds $2,637. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $5,881.
Four years after completion, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $59,304, at the 48th percentile nationally. That is $2,003 above the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). Azimuth places the university at the 54th percentile for return.
California State University-Channel Islands offers earnings that sit below the middle of nonprofit four-year institutions but exceed the model’s expectation for similar students. The median for federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled is $59,304 four years after completion, in the 48th percentile.
This measure covers 2,119 completers. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, offers a separate view.
Graduates earn about $8,518 more than the model expects for similar students. An estimated 34.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix.
Earnings scenarios based on the program mix show a downside, typical, and upside outcome rather than observed groups of graduates. The median earnings figure and the higher-than-expected result point in different ways, so both are useful when judging the school’s return.
California State University-Channel Islands graduates who received federal aid and are working four years after completion earn a median of $59,304, placing the university at the 48th percentile. The peer median for comparable institutions (same type and size) is $57,301, leaving the campus $2,003 above that figure.
Azimuth ranks the university #679 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $8,518 more than the model expects for similar students.
Earnings beyond expectations measure the gap between what graduates actually earn and what the model expects for similar students. That result falls at the 80th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $2,637. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $714.
The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain adds $5,881. Bachelor's degrees cluster heavily in psychology, health professions, and business administration, while STEM fields make up a smaller share of the overall program mix.
Earnings scenarios estimated from that mix range from $47,682 on the downside to $85,139 on the upside. An estimated 34.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.
Earnings vary widely across the university’s earnings scenarios and across individual fields. The downside earnings scenario is $47,682, the typical scenario is $59,304, and the upside scenario is $85,139, all modeled four years after completion.
Across 19 fields with published earnings data, Nursing has median earnings of $112,691, Computer Science reaches $100,887, and Economics reaches $71,662 four years after completion. Those field results show why the modeled range is broad.
At California State University-Channel Islands, affordability starts with an average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, of $9,849. Aid covers about 58% of the published cost for the average aid recipient.
That price sits $4,219 below the $14,068 peer median at comparable institutions (same type and size). Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $15,000, $6,229 below the $21,229 median at comparable institutions (same type and size).
That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $170 a month if repaid over ten years. Parent PLUS borrowers, a separate population, have median debt of $22,033.
Graduates earn about $8,518 more than the model expects for similar students. Lower net prices and lower borrowing coincide with higher-than-expected earnings.