2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$28,500
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 4,169 people earned their degree in behavioral sciences, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 983 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 416 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral sciences.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree behavioral sciences students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Clear Lake landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Houston - Clear Lake is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 59 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at UH Clear Lake
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Texas Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Marshall, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.
Full East Texas Baptist University Behavioral Sciences Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees to 350 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at University of Phoenix - Arizona
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Texas landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at University of Phoenix - Texas
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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