2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the Southeast Region 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 the Southeast region, there were 75 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,056 and $39,953 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

Columbia College

Columbia, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$18,307 Average Net Price

$26,933 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Columbia College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 7 bachelors’s behavioral science degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia College South Carolina also took the #2 spot in our “Best Behavioral Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $18,307 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Behavioral Science students with aid per year to attend Columbia College South Carolina.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at Columbia College South Carolina

• 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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