2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in behavioral sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree behavioral sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Houston - Clear Lake is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 1 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Clear Lake Behavioral Sciences Report

2

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 0 masters’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at Houston Baptist University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences

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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