2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the New England Region

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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 New England region, there were 133 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,877 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. To top this list, a school must have a successful behavioral science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree behavioral science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the New England Region

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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate list. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees to qualified students.

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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Behavioral Science at Harvard

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s behavioral science degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Maine Behavioral Science Report

• Most Popular Doctor’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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