2023 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Behavioral Neuroscience is the 354th most popular major in the country with 1,383 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across California, there were 600 behavioral neuroscience graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 600 behavioral neuroscience graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in behavioral neuroscience. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent behavioral neuroscience programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the behavioral neuroscience program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California

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University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

7 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Los Angeles. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s list. University of California - Los Angeles is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 432 bachelors’s physiological psychology/psychobiology degrees to qualified students.

UCLA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list.Of the 44,589 students enrolled at University of California - Los Angeles, 7 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,071. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

286 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Santa Barbara landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Santa Barbara, California, this large public school awarded 168 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s physiological psychology/psychobiology students in 2020-2021.

UCSB also made our “Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 286 of the 26,179 students enrolled at UCSB were GI Bill® students, of which 128 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,510. On top of their other funding sources, 3 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UCSB does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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.