2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region
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Behavioral Science is the 141st most popular major in the country with 4,493 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , behavioral science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,601 and had an average of $35,746 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 189 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,018 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. That schools that top this list have a program in behavioral science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree behavioral science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s behavioral science degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s behavioral science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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