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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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 162 people earned their degree in biopsychology, making the major the 320th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, biopsychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,400 and had an average of $22,750 in loans still to pay off.

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” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered 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

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 7 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Liberty University also took the #6 spot in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $28,903 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Liberty University.

Full Liberty University Biopsychology Report

#2

Geneva College

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Geneva College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree biopsychology students list, Geneva has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,778 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Geneva.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Geneva

#3

Morningside College

Sioux City, Iowa
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morningside College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s. Morningside College is located in Sioux City, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees to qualified students.

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. The estimated yearly cost for Morningside is $21,337 for Bachelor’s Degree Biopsychology students.

Read full report on Biopsychology at Morningside

#4

Rider University

Lawrenceville, New Jersey

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. Lawrenceville, New Jersey is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s biopsychology degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Rider not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #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.

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.

Full Rider University Biopsychology Report

#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. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biopsychology students in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $34,508 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students per year to attend Carnegie Mellon University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.

Read more about Biopsychology at Carnegie Mellon

#6

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

Tufts University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Biopsychology Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 51 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s biopsychology students 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. The yearly cost to attend Tufts University is $30,744 for bachelor’s degree biopsychology students.

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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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.

Full Tufts University Biopsychology Report

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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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