Graduates earn a median $33,043 two years after finishing, more than 35% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 106 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
| # | University | 1 yr out | 2 yrs out | 3 yrs out | Graduates/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University cost & debt at this university → | $43,328 | $47,260 | not published | 75 |
| 2 | California State University-Northridge cost & debt at this university → | $27,118 | $41,565 | $40,199 | — |
| 3 | San Francisco State University cost & debt at this university → | $36,145 | $41,342 | $40,195 | — |
| 4 | University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus | $29,218 | $38,289 | $39,851 | 1 |
| 5 | University of Connecticut-Stamford | $29,218 | $38,289 | $39,851 | 1 |
| 6 | University of Connecticut-Avery Point | $29,218 | $38,289 | $39,851 | 1 |
| 7 | University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus | $29,218 | $38,289 | $39,851 | 1 |
| 8 | University of Connecticut | $29,218 | $38,289 | $39,851 | 148 |
| 9 | University of Puget Sound cost & debt at this university → | $28,818 | $37,568 | not published | 16 |
| 10 | Beloit College cost & debt at this university → | not published | $37,208 | not published | — |
| 11 | Duke University cost & debt at this university → | not published | $36,848 | $39,437 | 23 |
| 12 | University of California-Davis cost & debt at this university → | $30,441 | $36,848 | not published | 49 |
It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Cell & Cellular Biology sits below the middle by $3,454.
Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".
There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences (CIP 2604). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.