Program Payoff

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California. 4 certificate and associate programs, public. 4 of them report what graduates earn; for the rest, the figure below is what the occupation pays in California.

ProgramCredentialMedian debtGraduates earnThe occupation pays
Legal Support Services Undergraduate certificate $53,775 (16) $77,390
Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians Undergraduate certificate not published $64,620
Audio and Video Technicians
Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services Undergraduate certificate not published $101,370
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication Undergraduate certificate not published $174,560
Managers, All Other

"Graduates earn" is the median two years after completing, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10; the number in brackets is how many graduates it covers. A dash means the Department has not published a figure — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates — and never that the figure is zero. "The occupation pays" is the state median for the occupation the program leads to, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, and describes everyone in that job rather than graduates of this school.