by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Washington, there were 89 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,543 and $48,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,905 and $22,558 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular behavioral science programs in the United States.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for washington bachelor’s degree behavioral science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s. Located in Ellensburg, Washington, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral science students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Washington for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Whitman College landed the #2 spot on the list. Whitman College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Walla Walla, Washington. It awarded 0 bachelors’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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