My son intends to major in Quantitative Biology and has narrowed his college search to USC and Northeastern. He was admitted in Honors Program at Northeastern. Cost at Northeastern is $52K and USC is $64K. We are fortunate to be able to pay most of the cost so my son would graduate with little debt (less than $75K). He likes USC slightly more as QBio departments has been very engaging and current students rave about the dept/faculty. Any thoughts/recommendations? TIA.
FWIW 75k isn’t little debt …
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thank you
So with loans being in play and if I’m reading this right, I think it’s hard to make a case that USC is worth 48K of more loans for a bio major. Both have quality programs for bio, though I can’t speak specifically to QBio.
Thank you.
$75k is not “little” debt, and would require parent loans or cosigned loans.
Also, biology graduate pay at the BA/BS level is fairly low. College Scorecard says that, for biology graduates who received federal financial aid, their median pay was about $27k from USC and about $38k from Northeastern. $75k debt would be a considerable burden for someone on that pay level.
(And if he is pre-med or other pre-health, he probably does not want to add $75k of debt to whatever hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt he will have for professional school if he gets in.)
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