2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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 Master’s in the Southwest Region” 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great behavioral science programs and 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston - Clear Lake

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. UH Clear Lake is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 6 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH Clear Lake, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Houston - Clear Lake are $19,216.

Full UH Clear Lake Behavioral Science Report

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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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