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2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Plains States Region

6 Ranked Colleges
118 Degrees Awarded
$29,010 Avg Salary
Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 279 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,953 and $30,045 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 118 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. That schools that top this list have a program in behavioral science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Plains States Region

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Missouri Baptist University
Saint Louis, Missouri

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Missouri Baptist University is a small school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 18 bachelors’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

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Dakota Wesleyan University
Mitchell, South Dakota

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota Wesleyan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Mitchell, South Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Behavioral Science at Dakota Wesleyan University

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Concordia University, Nebraska. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region list. Seward, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s behavioral science degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Behavioral Science at Concordia University, Nebraska

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University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region list. KU is a large public school situated in Lawrence, Kansas. It awarded 80 bachelors’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at KU

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Fontbonne University
Saint Louis, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fontbonne University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s behavioral science degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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Tabor College
Hillsboro, Kansas

Tabor College landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Hillsboro, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s behavioral science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Behavioral Science at Tabor College

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