2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 4,169 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 133 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in behavioral sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular behavioral sciences programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree behavioral sciences students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences in the New England Region

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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate list. Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s behavioral sciences degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 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 impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Maine Behavioral Sciences Report

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Sciences

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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