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2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s

6 Ranked Colleges
162 Degrees Awarded
$27,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor's

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Biopsychology is the 850th most popular major in the country with 162 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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

For this year’s “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in biopsychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biopsychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the biopsychology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biopsychology

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s list. 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 estimated yearly cost for Liberty University is $28,903 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students.

Full Liberty University Biopsychology Report

#2

Geneva College

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Geneva College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biopsychology degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Geneva also made our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $19,778 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Geneva College.

Full Geneva Biopsychology Report

#3

Morningside College

Sioux City, Iowa
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Morningside College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Sioux City, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biopsychology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Morningside, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $21,337 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Morningside College.

Full Morningside Biopsychology Report

#4

Rider University

Lawrenceville, New Jersey
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rider University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s biopsychology 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 $27,964 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students per year to attend Rider University.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Rider

#5

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees to qualified students.

Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Carnegie Mellon University is $34,508 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students.

The low student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Carnegie Mellon Biopsychology Report

#6

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts
#3 in overall quality

Tufts University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. Tufts University is a fairly large school located in Medford, Massachusetts that handed out 51 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree biopsychology students list, Tufts has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $30,744 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Tufts University.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Tufts

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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