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2023 Best Value Colleges for Comparative Psychology

1 Ranked Colleges

24 Degrees Awarded

$2,200 Avg Net Price*

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 Comparative Psychology Schools” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 24 people earned their degree in comparative psychology, making the major the 1223rd most popular in the United States.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent comparative psychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the comparative psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Comparative Psychology Schools

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Comparative Psychology Schools.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Comparative Psychology

Hunter College
New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$2,158 Average Net Price

$47,839 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hunter College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Comparative Psychology Schools list. Located in New York, New York, this large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified ’s comparative psychology students in 2020-2021.

Hunter did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Comparative Psychology Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Hunter College is $2,158 for Comparative Psychology students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

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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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