2024 Best Behavioral Science Schools in the Plains States Region
4Colleges in the Plains States Region
564Behavioral Science Degrees Awarded
$27,226Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in behavioral science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #141 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Behavioral Science Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 564 degrees in behavioral science during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Science in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the behavioral science degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Behavioral Science
Washington University in St Louis is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral science. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 93 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Iowa is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in behavioral science. Iowa is a very large public university located in the city of Iowa City. A Best Colleges rank of #84 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were approximately 332 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in behavioral science needs to check out University of Kansas. KU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lawrence. This university ranks 1st out of 47 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were approximately 88 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at KU in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the behavioral science program make about $29,023 in the first couple years of working.
Missouri Baptist University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in behavioral science. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, MBU is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 25th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 17 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at MBU in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the behavioral science program make an average of $25,428 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
