2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral science.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s behavioral science students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
Read more about Behavioral Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s behavioral science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Harding Behavioral Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 6 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Behavioral Science at Emory University
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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
- *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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