2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Texas

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Texas” ranking.

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 Texas, there were 475 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,820 and $27,576 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Texas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas master’s degree behavioral science students.

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

1

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Clear Lake landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s behavioral science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Clear Lake Behavioral Science Report

2

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Houston, Texas 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.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at HBU

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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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