2025 Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
189Behavioral Science Degrees Awarded
$43,095Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in behavioral science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #141 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for behavioral science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 189 degrees in behavioral science annually.
Your choice of behavioral science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Behavioral Science Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Behavioral Science in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of behavioral science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Behavioral Science
Yale University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in behavioral science. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #20 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were approximately 31 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year.
Brown University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in behavioral science. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 48 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in behavioral science has to take a look at Granite State College. Located in the medium-sized city of Manchester, GSC is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 15th out of 17 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were roughly 23 behavioral science students who graduated with this degree at GSC 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. We derive our Best Overall Behavioral Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
