2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Southwest Region for a Master’s” 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 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 “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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

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

1

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Clear Lake landed the #1 spot on the list. UH Clear Lake is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 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

2

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. 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

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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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