USC vs. Northeastern - Quantitative Biology

ucbalumnus
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:42:27 +0000

toothmolar:

with little debt (less than $75K).

$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.)