2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Neuroscience in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,383 people earned their degree in behavioral neuroscience, making the major the 354th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 21 behavioral neuroscience graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 behavioral neuroscience graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in behavioral neuroscience. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral neuroscience.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Neuroscience in the Plains States Region

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Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwest Missouri State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Maryville, Missouri, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s physiological psychology/psychobiology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Behavioral Neuroscience at Northwest Missouri State University

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Cornell College
Mount Vernon, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Major in the Plains States Region list. Cornell College is a small school located in Mount Vernon, Iowa that handed out 2 bachelors’s physiological psychology/psychobiology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Read full report on Behavioral Neuroscience at Cornell College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Neuroscience

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.