2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 4,493 people earned their degree in behavioral sciences, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 803 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral sciences.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree behavioral sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s behavioral sciences students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Behavioral Sciences Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Medical Branch. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. UTMB Galveston is located in Galveston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch
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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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