2024 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master's Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
41Master's Degrees
Behavioral Neuroscience is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #696 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 master's degrees in behavioral neuroscience during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Behavioral Neuroscience School for Your Master's Degree
The physiological psychology/psychobiology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host 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 master'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for behavioral neuroscience students working on their master's degree.
The physiological psychology/psychobiology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Behavioral Neuroscience Master's Degree Schools.
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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.
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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.