2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 132 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,335 and $25,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 65 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Pennsylvania

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 64 diplomas to qualified masters’s behavioral science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Behavioral Science at University of Pennsylvania

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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. 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. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at Carnegie Mellon

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
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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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