2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Behavioral Science is the 146th most popular major in the country with 3,469 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,550 and had an average of $39,821 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,207 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,129 and $33,516 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 475 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the behavioral science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

San Jacinto Community College

Pasadena, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,692 Average Net Price

$30,988 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Jacinto Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. San Jacinto College is a large school located in Pasadena, Texas that handed out 312 associates’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

San Jacinto College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Behavioral Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,692 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Behavioral Science students with aid per year to attend San Jacinto College.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at San Jacinto College

#2

Glendale Community College

Glendale, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$8,597 Average Net Price

$29,250 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Glendale Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Glendale, Arizona is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s behavioral science degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

Glendale Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Glendale Community College is $8,597 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Behavioral Science students with aid.

Full Glendale Community College Behavioral Science Report

#3

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#3 in overall quality

$12,944 Average Net Price

$27,111 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 43 associates’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Arizona also made our “Best Behavioral Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $12,944 for southwest region associate degree behavioral science students with aid per year to attend UOPX - Arizona.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at UOPX - Arizona

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science (With Aid)

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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