2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Behavioral Sciences is the 184th most popular major in the country with 3,469 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 75 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great behavioral sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the behavioral sciences program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Behavioral Sciences Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree behavioral sciences students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Behavioral Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Behavioral Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences (Income $48-$75k)

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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