Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other

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

Schools Ranked

$31,287

Avg. Earnings

1.6 yrs

Best Payback

2,299

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 Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN · Public	$12,911	$66,541	1.6 yrs
2	Cornell University Ithaca, NY · Private	$9,785	$38,505	11.2 yrs
3	Russell Sage College Troy, NY · Private	$24,877	$40,791	17.2 yrs
4	Guilford College Greensboro, NC · Private	$21,683	$35,416	208.5 yrs
5	Springfield College Springfield, MA · Private	$23,561	$30,771	N/A
6	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington New Kensington, PA · Public	$20,569	$27,667	N/A
7	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Scranton Dunmore, PA · Public	$16,841	$27,667	N/A
8	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley Center Valley, PA · Public	$19,297	$27,667	N/A
9	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA · Public	$22,395	$27,667	N/A
10	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA · Public	$27,137	$27,667	N/A
11	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny McKeesport, PA · Public	$20,673	$27,667	N/A
12	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus University Park, PA · Public	$19,223	$27,667	N/A
13	University at Albany Albany, NY · Public	$19,727	$26,997	N/A
14	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN · Public	$12,369	$28,598	N/A
15	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL · Public	$11,505	$31,495	N/A
16	California State University-Bakersfield Bakersfield, CA · Public	$9,102	$27,440	N/A
17	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH · Public	$20,896	$34,348	N/A
18	University of Puerto Rico at Ponce Ponce, PR · Public	$10,057	$12,221	N/A
19	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington Abington, PA · Public	$20,421	$27,667	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.