2023 Most Focused Colleges for Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics in the Southeast Region

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Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics is the 777th most popular major in the country with 245 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 22 cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics in the Southeast Region

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

$56,204 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,616 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region. Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 ’s cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Emory University Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics Report

2

Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Welch College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region list. Welch is a small school located in Gallatin, Tennessee that handed out 0 ’s cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics at Welch College

• Most Focused Colleges for Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.