2023 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral neuroscience. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent behavioral neuroscience programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the behavioral neuroscience program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree vets studying physiological psychology/psychobiology.

Top 2 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, New York

49 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$4,335 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #1 spot on the list. The Graduate Center, CUNY is a medium-sized public school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 6 masters’s physiological psychology/psychobiology degrees in 2020-2021.

The Graduate Center did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, The Graduate Center supports 9,300 students, and 49 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 9 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,335. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The undergraduate 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at The Graduate Center, CUNY]](/colleges/cuny-graduate-school-and-university-center/student-life/veterans/)

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Teachers College at Columbia University
New York, New York

30 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$19,966 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Teachers College at Columbia University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Master’s. Teachers College at Columbia University is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 30 masters’s physiological psychology/psychobiology degrees in 2020-2021.

Teachers College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Teachers College at Columbia University supports 4,547 students, and 30 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 15 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,966. In addition to receiving other benefits, 7 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Teachers College]](/colleges/teachers-college-at-columbia-university/student-life/veterans/)

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.