2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public institution located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 19 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at UNC Chapel Hill

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Emory 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

• *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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