2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 4,169 people earned their degree in behavioral science, making the major the 141st most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 650 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,579 and $46,616 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their behavioral science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region

1

Richard Bland College of William and Mary
South Prince George, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Richard Bland College of William and Mary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Richard Bland College of William and Mary is a small public school situated in South Prince George, Virginia. It awarded 1 associates’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Campbell University
Buies Creek, North Carolina

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Campbell University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region. Buies Creek, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s behavioral science degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

Lynn University
Boca Raton, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lynn University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region. Lynn University is a small school located in Boca Raton, Florida that handed out 0 associates’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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