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2022 Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
164 Degrees Awarded
$22,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,719 people earned their degree in applied psychology, making the major the 336th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 433 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 164 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in applied psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality applied psychology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the applied 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 Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology in the Southeast Region

#1

Hodges University

Naples, Florida
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hodges University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Naples, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s applied psychology students in 2019-2020.

International College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Hodges University is $21,577 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Applied Psychology students.

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#2

Point University

West Point, Georgia
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Point University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in West Point, Georgia, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s applied psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree applied psychology students list, Point has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,187 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Applied Psychology students per year to attend Point University.

Read more about Applied Psychology at Point University

#3

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Belhaven University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and it awarded 42 bachelors’s applied psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree applied psychology students list, Belhaven has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Belhaven University is $17,439 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Applied Psychology students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Applied Psychology at Belhaven University

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Daytona Beach, Florida. It awarded 36 bachelors’s applied psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree applied psychology students list, Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach is $34,296 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Applied Psychology students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 Applied Psychology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology - Online. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Applied Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Florida Institute of Technology - Online is a small school located in Melbourne, Florida that handed out 42 bachelors’s applied psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Florida Institute of Technology - Online also made our “Best Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5.

Full Florida Institute of Technology - Online Applied Psychology 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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