2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in Missouri

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Missouri” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Missouri, there were 127 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,023 and $28,243 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in Missouri” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their behavioral sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in Missouri”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in Missouri

1

Missouri Baptist University
Saint Louis, Missouri

#24 overall quality in Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. MBU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 18 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Behavioral Sciences at Missouri Baptist University

2

Fontbonne University
Saint Louis, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Fontbonne University landed the #2 spot on the list. Fontbonne University is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Fontbonne University

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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

• *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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