2025 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in behavioral neuroscience, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #207 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 bachelor's degrees in behavioral neuroscience during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 - The number of behavioral neuroscience students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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 bachelor's degree.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Behavioral Neuroscience in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in behavioral neuroscience.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology

1

Pace University - New York
New York, NY

9 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Pace University - New York if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in behavioral neuroscience. Pace University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.More information about a bachelor’s in behavioral neuroscience from Pace University - New York

2

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

21 Annual Graduates

Villanova University is a good option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in behavioral neuroscience. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Villanova.More information about a bachelor’s in behavioral neuroscience from Villanova University

Best Behavioral Neuroscience Colleges by State

Explore the best behavioral neuroscience schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	707	8
Pennsylvania	698	34

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Behavioral Neuroscience Related Rankings by Major

One of 10 majors within the Child Development & Psychology area of study, Behavioral Neuroscience has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	2,708
Experimental Psychology	299
Developmental & Child Psychology	73
Social Psychology	49
Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics	20

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.