Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Human Biology degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $31,189 two years after finishing, more than 23% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 35 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

D

The verdict on the money

Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.

Median earnings $31,189 2 years after finishing
Typical range $27,669–$32,925 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree — vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 1,867 35 programmes

Where a Human Biology degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Stanford University cost & debt at this university → $40,010 $34,526 $60,099 140
2 Hamline University cost & debt at this university → $30,081 $32,925 $40,660 21
3 University of California-Los Angeles cost & debt at this university → not published $32,925 $52,476 207
4 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay cost & debt at this university → $29,514 $31,189 $42,644 76
5 University of Kansas cost & debt at this university → $30,152 $28,598 not published 76
6 Brown University cost & debt at this university → not published $27,669 $28,296 53
7 University of Southern California cost & debt at this university → $30,297 $26,817 $33,434 241

What this figure does and does not tell you

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 Human Biology sits below the middle by $5,308.

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.

Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Clinical, Counseling — $31,314 Natural Resources and Conservation — $31,364 Parks, Recreation — $31,366 Behavioral Sciences — $31,432 Sociology — $31,443 Foods, Nutrition — $31,468

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Human Biology: the questions people ask

How much do Human Biology graduates earn?
The median bachelor's graduate earns $31,189 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 7 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $30,117.
Is a Human Biology degree worth it?
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
What is the salary range for Human Biology?
Half of US programmes report medians between $27,669 and $32,925. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Human Biology each year?
About 1,867 students complete a bachelor's in this field each year across 35 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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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.