Bachelor's · Northridge, California
Is Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at California State University-Northridge worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,503
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $27k (likely $27k – $37k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.6 years (likely 1.6–5.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$54k (likely −$150k – $51k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $120k (likely −$79k – $325k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 57%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at other schools in California
- University of California-Santa Barbara$90,694
- University of California-Santa Cruz$88,305
- University of San Diego$83,380
- California State University-Long Beach$79,820
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$78,097
- California State University-East Bay$77,863
- San Francisco State University$76,134
- University of California-Los Angeles$73,506
- University of California-San Diego$72,491
- University of California-Davis$70,754