2025 Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
189Behavioral 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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Behavioral Sciences Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 189 degrees in behavioral sciences to qualified students.
Your choice of behavioral sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Sciences in the New England Region
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.
Top New England Region Schools in Behavioral Sciences
It's difficult to beat Yale University if you wish to pursue a degree in behavioral sciences. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of New Haven. A Best Colleges rank of #20 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were about 31 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year.
Brown University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in behavioral sciences. Brown is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Providence. This university ranks 1st out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 48 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Granite State College if you want to pursue a degree in behavioral sciences. GSC is a small public college located in the medium-sized city of Manchester. This college ranks 15th out of 17 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were about 23 behavioral sciences students who graduated with this degree at GSC in the most recent year we have data available.
Behavioral Sciences is one of 0 different types of Behavioral Science programs to choose from.
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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