2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that 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 Southeast region, there were 650 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,579 and $46,616 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in behavioral science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. UNC Chapel Hill is a large public school situated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It awarded 19 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees 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 UNC Chapel Hill

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 6 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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

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.

Credits

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