2023 Schools for a Master’s 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. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 983 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,145 and $36,655 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

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

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region

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

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

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University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region list. UH Clear Lake is a medium-sized public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 1 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at University of Houston - Clear Lake

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Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Houston Baptist University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region. Houston Baptist University is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s behavioral science degrees to qualified students.

Full HBU Behavioral Science Report

• Most Focused Master’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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