2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$14,500
Avg Net Price*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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” 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.
This year’s “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in behavioral science. 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region.
Top 3 Best Value Colleges for Behavioral Science in the New England Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Granite State College landed the #1 spot on the list. GSC is a small school located in Concord, New Hampshire that handed out 14 ’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.
GSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $13,725 for New England Region Behavioral Science students per year to attend GSC.
Read more about Behavioral Science at Granite State College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Antioch University - New England. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region list. Keene, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s behavioral science degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Antioch University - New England, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” ranking.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Antioch University - New England Behavioral Science Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region list. Yale University is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 29 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Yale, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $15,296 for new england region behavioral science students 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Behavioral Science at Yale University
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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
- *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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