2022 Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,469 people earned their degree in behavioral sciences, making the major the 184th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 68 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent behavioral sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the behavioral sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree behavioral sciences students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the New England Region

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,392 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Brown, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Behavioral Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Brown University is $29,392 for new england region bachelor’s degree behavioral sciences students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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