2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Texas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Texas, there were 479 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,800 and $24,528 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 388 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality behavioral science programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in Texas” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in Texas.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Texas

#1

San Jacinto Community College

Pasadena, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,692 Average Net Price

$30,988 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for an Associate in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, San Jacinto Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Pasadena, Texas, and it awarded 312 associates’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

San Jacinto College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Associate Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for San Jacinto College is $8,692 for Texas Associate Degree Behavioral Science students.

Read more about Behavioral Science at San Jacinto College

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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

• *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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