2024 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
10Doctor's Degrees
Behavioral Neuroscience is about average in terms of popularity for doctor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #397 out of the 862 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Behavioral Neuroscience Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 10 doctor's degrees in behavioral neuroscience to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Behavioral Neuroscience School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of behavioral neuroscience for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on behavioral neuroscience students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other behavioral neuroscience students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized behavioral neuroscience related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for behavioral neuroscience students working on their doctor's degree.
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 Neuroscience Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Behavioral Neuroscience Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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.