2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maryland, there were 59 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $61,222 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the behavioral science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland bachelor’s degree behavioral science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in Maryland (With Aid)

#1

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$29,342 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Behavioral Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $29,342 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Behavioral Science students with aid per year to attend Johns Hopkins University.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Johns Hopkins Behavioral Science Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science (With Aid)

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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