2025 Best Behavioral Science Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
215Behavioral Science Degrees Awarded
$43,095Avg Early-Career Salary
Behavioral Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #141 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for behavioral science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 215 degrees in behavioral science to qualified students.
Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for behavioral science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Behavioral Science Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Science in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the behavioral science degree levels they offer.
Every student who is interested in behavioral science needs to look into University of Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 82 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the behavioral science degree program at University of Pennsylvania make $39,482 above the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Franklin and Marshall College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral science. Franklin and Marshall is a small private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Lancaster. This college ranks 18th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 41 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Franklin and Marshall in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Elizabethtown College if you wish to pursue a degree in behavioral science. Located in the suburb of Elizabethtown, Etown is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 42nd out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 56 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Etown in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for behavioral science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
