2023 Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 133 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The behavioral sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region”.

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Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region.

Top 3 Best Value Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the New England Region

1

Granite State College
Concord, New Hampshire

#2 in overall quality

$13,725 Average Net Price

$50,184 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Granite State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region list. Granite State College is a public institution located in Concord, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

GSC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $13,725 for new england region behavioral sciences students per year to attend GSC.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at GSC

2

Antioch University - New England
Keene, New Hampshire

#3 in overall quality

$44,779 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Antioch University - New England. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Keene, New Hampshire, and it awarded 7 ’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Antioch University - New England not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region” list.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Antioch University - New England

3

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$15,296 Average Net Price

$64,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 29 degrees to qualified ’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.

Yale also made our “Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $15,296 for New England Region Behavioral Sciences students per year to attend Yale University.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Yale

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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.

Credits

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