2024 Best Colleges for Behavioral Sciences

SUMMARY

Majoring in Behavioral Sciences is not only a valuable choice, but usually a mandatory first step for students planning to pursue a career as a behavior technician, a behavioral interventionist, or a behavioral health specialist. Interestingly, nationally, behavioral sciences is a ​unique major coming in at the 130th most popular major. In the last year, there were 2,433 behavioral sciences diplomas received. In-state tuition for behavioral sciences at private schools is, on average, 3.7 times more costly than their public counterparts.

With just 72 schools offering behavioral sciences you could have limited options as to the institutions that will have an option for you. If you're looking to surround yourself with other behavioral sciences undergraduates, look at institutions in Arizona which have more undergrads admitted to behavioral sciences than any other state. less precisely, the top region to pursue behavioral sciences is in the Southwest region with University of Houston-Clear Lake, University of Phoenix-Texas, and University of Phoenix-Arizona best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick of the top conference to major in behavioral sciences is the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference with Wilmington University representing the conference. Based on our list of the best colleges, our choice for the best school for behavioral sciences is Harvard University.

The 'best' school might not actually be the 'best' school for every student. There are a bunch of facets to weigh when choosing ​university. Features such as campus amenities, transportation services, and food might affect one's feelings of which school to attend. At authority.org, we've examined the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you are intrigued by which behavioral sciences college is home to the best campus, the answer is Harvard University. If you are very interested in which school has the finest campus, we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through government databases, professor reviews, student reviews, and more to compare all U.S. majors in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can explore our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand, from that list, our selection of the college with the best student life for behavioral sciences is Brown University. Curious why? Keep scrolling to find out more about Authority's top choices. Some of our picks will probably shock you.

If price is a significant deciding factor in your choice of where you attend school, you might be cautious about Franklin and Marshall College. Franklin and Marshall College&nbspis our most expensive college for behavioral sciences, at least regarding out of state students. That being said, we have a list of the most expensive&nbspschools that could put the cost at Franklin and Marshall College&nbspinto perspective. You may also be interested to know that behavioral sciences is the 350th most expensive program in America, with an average cost of $19,500. On a broader scale, the most costly state for behavioral sciences nationally is Rhode Island with expenses at the main school, Brown University, of $57,112. To zoom out even further, the most costly region of the country for behavioral sciences is the New England region which is best demonstrated with Harvard University with a cost of $47,730, and Brown University with a cost of $57,112.

Our cheapest region for behavioral sciences is the Southwest region which is represented by University of Houston-Clear Lake with a cost of $19,176, University of Phoenix-Texas with a cost of $9,552, and University of Phoenix-Arizona with a cost of $9,552. On the bright side, the most affordable school for behavioral sciences is University of Phoenix-Arizona. Authority's full list of the most affordable schools can be explored here.

In-state learners can anticipate paying around $9,100 for a degree in behavioral sciences. That price swells significantly to a median of $18,500 for the out-of-state public-school student. Our pick for the school representing the best value for behavioral sciences: Harvard University. On this page you will find our comprehensive list of the colleges we see as being the best value&nbspoverall. With that said, this list is based on out-of-state tuition costs. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for behavioral sciences students vary a lot, but two years after leaving college students will typically make in the neighborhood of $39,200. There can be much variation in earnings; top earners can enjoy pay up to $62,200. Even right out of school, the minimum earning positions within the behavioral sciences field earn $24,900, which could be worse. The highest earning grads from behavioral sciences studied at Harvard University&nbspand if you want to find the colleges with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The general diversity of behavioral sciences ranks solid, coming in the 68th percentile of all majors. The university with the highest composite diversity for behavioral sciences is University of Phoenix-Arizona&nbspand here you can find our general list for the colleges which have the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of Behavioral Sciences stands only in the 5th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is actually greater, in the 79th percentile. White collegians make up the largest share at 50% of students studying behavioral sciences. Additionally, 83% of undergrads seeking a behavioral sciences major are women.

The median rating of behavioral sciences' professors is 4 stars, which is exactly the average across every major; this is a fine. If you want the most popular behavioral sciences professor in the country, consider looking up Theresa Schrantz from Tarrant County College District. This may be surprising, but the highest ranked instructors of behavioral sciences by student come from California State University-Northridge. As we including data beyond simply rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing comprehensively the best professors for behavioral sciences is Johns Hopkins University. You will find more detail on our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as some of the best examples of professors in the U.S.

Finally, the hardest college to get into for behavioral sciences is Harvard University. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we do have a general list for the hardest colleges to get into. But, here at Authority we hope you believe that looking at college from context only formed from superlatives could cause issues. We hope you look at some of our other pages on individual universities and read a couple of our insightful background articles on beneficial things to look for as your school search continues.