2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Plains States region, there were 564 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their behavioral sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s behavioral sciences degrees to 43 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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 more about Behavioral Sciences at Washington University in St Louis
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s behavioral sciences students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Behavioral Sciences at University of Kansas
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s behavioral sciences students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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
- *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.
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