2024 Best Behavioral Science Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
8Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
499Behavioral Science Degrees Awarded
$31,599Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in behavioral science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #141 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Behavioral Science Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 499 degrees in behavioral science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of behavioral science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Behavioral Science
University of Pennsylvania is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral science. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 64 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Carnegie Mellon University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in behavioral science. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were roughly 5 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you wish to pursue a degree in behavioral science. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were about 7 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in behavioral science has to take a look at Franklin and Marshall College. Franklin and Marshall is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Lancaster. This college ranks 34th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 36 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Franklin and Marshall in the most recent data year.
Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, behavioral science degree recipients typically make about $17,641 in the first five years of their career.
YCP is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of York. This college ranks 51st out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
Students who receive their degree from the behavioral science program make an average of $33,335 in their early career salary.
UB is a small public university located in the large city of Baltimore. This university ranks 24th out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 33 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at UB in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
