Bachelor's · Los Angeles, California
Is Neurobiology and Neurosciences at University of Southern California worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 4.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $36,370
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $95,815
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,309
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $140k (likely $140k – $181k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $56k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.3 years (likely 3.7–5.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $179k (likely $63k – $288k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $841k (likely $601k – $1.11M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 90%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at University of Southern California
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other (Doctoral)$226,049
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Graduate certificate)$199,110
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Neurobiology and Neurosciences at other schools in California
- University of San Diego$72,910
- University of California-Santa Cruz$69,027
- University of California-Davis$63,720
- University of California-San Diego$61,799
- University of California-Los Angeles$55,404
- Santa Clara University$52,670
- University of California-Riverside$51,865
- University of California-Irvine$29,282