2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama

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 for a Bachelor’s in Alabama” 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 Alabama, there were 13 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,800 and $41,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,191 and $26,651 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama bachelor’s degree behavioral science students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Alabama

#1

Athens State University

Athens, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Athens State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Athens, Alabama, this small public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral science students in 2019-2020.

Athens State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Behavioral Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list.

Full Athens State University Behavioral Science Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region
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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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