What Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $44,357 year-one median and the $84,900 year-five median for Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other come from federal earnings records pooled across 100 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (2,804 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

From $44,357 in the first year to $84,900 in the fifth, earnings grow 91% ($40,543). For scale, the median bachelor's field in the Scorecard file grows from $45,010 to $65,763 over the same span, so this field's early-career slope is steeper than typical.

The Pell split adds a second lens on the $44,357 year-one median: graduates who received Pell Grants earn a median of $42,867, and graduates who did not earn $45,023, a gap of $2,156. Read it as a map of where each group studied and the networks they carried in, not as the degree paying two different wages for the same work.

Inside its own CIP family, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other ranks 1 of 10 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $70,226. Its closest sibling is Biotechnology at $81,453, below this field's $84,900. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other stands number 44 by five-year earnings and number 100 by first-year earnings, and number 163 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 119 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $25,000 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other, pooled from 14 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $44,357 that balance is 56% of a year's gross pay, roughly 6.8 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $284 a month and $9,095 in total interest. Your own balance and rate belong in the student loan payoff calculator; the degree-level verdict belongs in the college ROI calculator and the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other, individual programs post five-year medians far from $84,900 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington sits first at $84,900.

A program median describes that program's own graduates in that program's own labor market; Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington at $84,900 is evidence about a place and a mix of students, not a wage offer. Put the same programs' prices next to these figures with the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator before ranking anything.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 51.2% of the 2,903 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $84,900 sits 0% above the national field median of $84,900. Its median debt, $25,000, runs below the field median of $25,000, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.