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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking.

Behavioral Sciences is the 177th most popular major in the country with 4,169 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 650 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 behavioral sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in behavioral sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful behavioral sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

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

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#6 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. UNC Chapel Hill is a large public school situated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It awarded 19 doctorate’s behavioral sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UNC Chapel Hill Behavioral Sciences Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Behavioral Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s behavioral sciences students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Behavioral Sciences at Emory University

• 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.

Credits

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