2023 Most Focused Colleges for Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics in the Southeast Region

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Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics is the 777th most popular major in the country with 284 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 11 cognitive psychology & psycholinguistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in cognitive psychology & psycholinguistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their cognitive psychology & psycholinguistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics in the Southeast Region

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

$56,204 Average Early-Career Earnings

$46,308 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 7 ’s cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics 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 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. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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2

Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Welch College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics Major in the Southeast Region. Welch College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Gallatin, Tennessee. It awarded 0 ’s cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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.