2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 983 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,145 and $36,655 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region

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

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

1

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas

#2 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region. UTHealth is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 9 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

2

The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

#3 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Medical Branch. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region list. Galveston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s behavioral science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 The University of Texas Medical Branch

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science

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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