2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Behavioral Science is the 146th most popular major in the country with 3,469 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,550 and had an average of $39,821 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 15 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,800 and $41,750 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent behavioral science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the behavioral science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia doctor’s degree behavioral science students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science (Income $30-$48k) in Georgia

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 1 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Behavioral Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory University are $44,676.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at Emory

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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