2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Behavioral Science is the 141st most popular major in the country with 4,169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,701 and had an average of $35,804 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 133 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,877 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent behavioral science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the behavioral science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Behavioral Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

1

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$961 Average Net Price

$64,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Yale University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Haven, Connecticut. It awarded 29 ’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

Yale also made our “Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $961 for new england region behavioral science students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Yale.

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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at Yale

2

Granite State College
Concord, New Hampshire

#2 in overall quality

$12,544 Average Net Price

$50,184 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Granite State College landed the #2 spot on the list. Granite State College is located in Concord, New Hampshire and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 ’s behavioral science degrees to qualified students.

GSC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $12,544 for New England Region Behavioral Science students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Granite State College.

Full Granite State College Behavioral Science Report

• Best Value Colleges for Behavioral Science (Income $0-$30k)

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.

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