2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southeast region, there were 641 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,579 and $38,402 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 behavioral science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in behavioral science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their behavioral science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Behavioral Science in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #1 spot on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 22 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Behavioral Science at UNC Chapel Hill
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Behavioral Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 3 doctorate’s behavioral science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Emory University Behavioral Science Report
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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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