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Best Value Colleges for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

50

Schools Ranked

$32,124

Avg. Earnings

4.6 yrs

Best Payback

5,475

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	University of Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI · Private	$15,476	$48,432	4.6 yrs
2	San Jose State University San Jose, CA · Public	$17,338	$45,500	6.6 yrs
3	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA · Public	$16,065	$44,276	6.9 yrs
4	Northeastern University Boston, MA · Private	$18,389	$44,933	7.4 yrs
5	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC · Public	$14,424	$42,123	8.1 yrs
6	California State University-San Marcos San Marcos, CA · Public	$14,309	$41,937	8.3 yrs
7	California State University-Sacramento Sacramento, CA · Public	$12,602	$41,025	8.4 yrs
8	California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA · Public	$9,854	$39,648	8.5 yrs
9	Princeton University Princeton, NJ · Private	$5,542	$37,568	8.6 yrs
10	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA · Public	$9,017	$38,937	9.2 yrs
11	Texas State University San Marcos, TX · Public	$12,996	$40,512	9.4 yrs
12	Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA · Private	$24,182	$44,942	9.7 yrs
13	Colgate University Hamilton, NY · Private	$17,557	$42,123	9.9 yrs
14	Utah State University Logan, UT · Public	$13,553	$40,368	10.1 yrs
15	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN · Public	$8,450	$38,289	10.3 yrs
16	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH · Public	$20,896	$42,682	10.9 yrs
17	University of San Diego San Diego, CA · Private	$28,214	$45,383	10.9 yrs
18	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX · Public	$15,248	$40,467	11.2 yrs
19	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY · Private	$17,403	$41,025	11.6 yrs
20	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH · Public	$23,513	$42,682	12.2 yrs
21	University of Vermont Burlington, VT · Public	$17,585	$39,592	15.3 yrs
22	Towson University Towson, MD · Public	$17,667	$39,369	16.2 yrs
23	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · Public	$16,134	$38,649	17.7 yrs
24	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA · Public	$16,667	$38,289	20.3 yrs
25	Mount Saint Mary's University Los Angeles, CA · Private	$33,649	$41,565	20.5 yrs
26	University of Massachusetts-Boston Boston, MA · Public	$17,689	$38,289	21.5 yrs
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public	$10,364	$36,924	21.5 yrs
28	University of California-Davis Davis, CA · Public	$14,193	$37,493	22.8 yrs
29	Stockton University Galloway, NJ · Public	$21,350	$38,289	26 yrs
30	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI · Public	$20,557	$38,018	27.2 yrs
31	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO · Public	$15,086	$37,208	27.3 yrs
32	University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA · Private	$30,077	$38,289	36.6 yrs
33	Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA · Private	$33,999	$38,289	41.3 yrs
34	Rowan University Glassboro, NJ · Public	$27,278	$37,568	42.5 yrs
35	Brandeis University Waltham, MA · Private	$24,183	$37,208	43.8 yrs
36	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA · Public	$14,310	$35,964	59.4 yrs
37	Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ · Private	$28,483	$36,674	68.1 yrs
38	East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania East Stroudsburg, PA · Public	$20,726	$36,141	72.7 yrs
39	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks Reading, PA · Public	$22,967	$35,952	96.5 yrs
40	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA · Public	$27,137	$35,952	114 yrs
41	Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA · Private	$27,431	$35,600	182.9 yrs
42	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA · Public	$14,583	$21,508	N/A
43	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS · Public	$18,586	$31,848	N/A
44	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ · Public	$18,026	$28,236	N/A
45	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD · Public	$17,360	$30,616	N/A
46	Temple University Philadelphia, PA · Public	$21,568	$33,993	N/A
47	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA · Public	$11,189	$32,332	N/A
48	Rutgers University-Camden Camden, NJ · Public	$15,952	$33,993	N/A
49	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ · Public	$20,927	$33,993	N/A
50	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN · Public	$12,369	$29,685	N/A

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Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.