2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,493 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 803 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in behavioral sciences.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s behavioral sciences students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Houston - Clear Lake Behavioral Sciences Report

2

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s behavioral sciences degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Houston Baptist University Behavioral Sciences Report

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

• *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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