2024 Best Behavioral Science Schools in Pennsylvania
4Colleges in Pennsylvania
132Behavioral Science Degrees Awarded
$33,335Avg Early-Career Salary
Behavioral Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #141 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for behavioral science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 132 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for behavioral science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Behavioral Science Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Science in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the behavioral science degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in behavioral science has to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. 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 about 64 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Carnegie Mellon University if you wish to pursue 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.
Franklin and Marshall College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral science. 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 roughly 36 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Franklin and Marshall in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus if you want to pursue a degree in behavioral science. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.More information about a degree in behavioral science from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
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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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for behavioral science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
