Bachelor's · Charlotte, North Carolina
Is Biology, General at University of North Carolina at Charlotte worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $38,024
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,568
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $64k (likely $64k – $82k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5 years (likely 4.4–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$11k (likely −$75k – $28k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $283k (likely $172k – $397k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Master's)$158,814
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$151,262
- Engineering-Related Fields (Master's)$128,510
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$125,281
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$122,997
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Doctoral)$113,816
- Business/Managerial Economics (Master's)$112,577
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$112,462
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Graduate certificate)$108,308
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$108,285
- Computer Science (Master's)$107,088
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$101,786
Biology, General at other schools in North Carolina
- Duke University$83,192
- High Point University$67,184
- East Carolina University$64,205
- Wake Forest University$63,292
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$62,047
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$61,384
- University of North Carolina Wilmington$60,750
- William Peace University$60,289
- Meredith College$60,099
- Wingate University$58,623