2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s

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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 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 “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s” 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.

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Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s”.

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

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University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at University of Houston - Clear Lake

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Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Behavioral Science Major in Texas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Houston Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 0 masters’s behavioral science degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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