2025 Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
215Behavioral Sciences Degrees Awarded
A degree in behavioral sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #177 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 215 degrees in behavioral sciences to qualified students.
The behavioral sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Behavioral Sciences rankings. For our Best Overall Behavioral Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in Pennsylvania list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Sciences in Pennsylvania
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the behavioral sciences degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Pennsylvania is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral sciences. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 82 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Franklin and Marshall College if you wish to pursue a degree in behavioral sciences. Franklin and Marshall is a small private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Lancaster. This college ranks 18th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 41 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at Franklin and Marshall in the most recent data year.
Elizabethtown College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in behavioral sciences. Located in the large suburb of Elizabethtown, Etown is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 42nd out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 56 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at Etown in the most recent data year.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The behavioral sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Behavioral Sciences rankings. For our Best Overall Behavioral Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
