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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biopsychology (Income $0-$30k)

6 Ranked Colleges
162 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 162 people earned their degree in biopsychology, making the major the 850th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 162 biopsychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in biopsychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biopsychology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the biopsychology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biopsychology (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Tufts is a fairly large school located in Medford, Massachusetts that handed out 51 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tufts, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $5,267 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Tufts.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Tufts

#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon also made our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Carnegie Mellon is $12,542 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Carnegie Mellon University Biopsychology Report

#3

Rider University

Lawrenceville, New Jersey
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rider University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Rider is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Rider did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $21,161 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Rider.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Biopsychology at Rider

#4

Geneva College

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Geneva College landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Geneva did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Geneva is $16,158 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Geneva Biopsychology Report

#5

Morningside College

Sioux City, Iowa
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morningside College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Sioux City, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biopsychology students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k list, Morningside has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Morningside College is $19,805 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Morningside Biopsychology Report

#6

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia
#6 in overall quality

Liberty University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biopsychology degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Liberty University is $27,896 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Liberty University

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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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