Business & management

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

California Lutheran University · Thousand Oaks, CA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$50,670Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded9Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Master's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$63,392
Same subject · national$63,004
Business & management · national$63,005

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $57,976–$69,501.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Saint Mary's College of CaliforniaAccounting and Related Services, Business Administration, Management and Operations$88,275
Bethel UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Human Resources Management and Services$69,991
Monmouth UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$62,211
Assumption UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$64,572
Xavier UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Finance and Financial Management Services, Human Resources Management and Services$78,971
Whitworth UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$57,995
Saint Mary's University of MinnesotaBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Human Resources Management and Services$65,345
Niagara UniversityAccounting and Related Services, Business/Commerce, General$54,070
Robert Morris UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$61,516
Point Loma Nazarene UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$69,338
Thomas Jefferson UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations, Construction Management, Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations, Taxation$57,920
Trine UniversityBusiness Administration, Management and Operations$52,941
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗