2023 Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Biopsychology is the 318th most popular major in the country with 183 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, biopsychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,067 and had an average of $21,250 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 biopsychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biopsychology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great biopsychology programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the biopsychology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree vets studying biopsychology.

Top 2 Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

117 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

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 Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 10 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Carnegie Mellon also made our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.Among the 13,519 students enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University, 117 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 72 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $18,422. In addition to receiving other benefits, 36 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.

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2

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Biopsychology for a Bachelor’s list. Tufts is a fairly large school located in Medford, Massachusetts that handed out 57 bachelors’s biopsychology degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree vets studying biopsychology list, Tufts has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Biopsychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 12,219 students enrolled at Tufts were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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