You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biopsychology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified ’s biopsychology students in 2020-2021.
Carnegie Mellon did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Biopsychology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Carnegie Mellon is $16,456 for Middle Atlantic Region Biopsychology students whose families make $0-$30k.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.