2024 Best Behavioral Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in behavioral science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #135 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for behavioral science students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 598 bachelor's degrees in behavioral science during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to behavioral science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of behavioral science students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt behavioral science students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized behavioral science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for behavioral science students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Behavioral Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in behavioral science.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Behavioral Science

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

515 Annual Graduates

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a good choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in behavioral science. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in behavioral science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Athens State University
Athens, AL

5 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Athens State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in behavioral science. Located in the fringe town of Athens, Athens State University is a public university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in behavioral science from Athens State University

Best Behavioral Science Colleges by State

Explore the best behavioral science schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	224	27
Tennessee	220	24
North Carolina	213	518
South Carolina	195	6
Alabama	184	6
Louisiana	171	0
West Virginia	147	17

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Rankings in Majors Related to Behavioral Science

One of 51 majors within the Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies area of study, Behavioral Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Behavioral Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Behavioral Sciences	598

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	6,113
Interdisciplinary Studies	4,144
Biological & Physical Science	982
International Studies	970
Nutrition Science	562
Human Computer Interaction	385
Sustainability Science	259
Science, Technology & Society	228
Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution	215
Cognitive Science	93

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Polimerek. More about our data sources and methodologies.