by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 4,493 people earned their degree in behavioral sciences, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 189 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral sciences.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Fort Kent. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Fort Kent, Maine, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 37 degrees to qualified bachelors’s behavioral sciences students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Granite State College landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Concord, New Hampshire, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 71 bachelors’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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