2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 2,491 people earned their degree in forensic psychology, making the major the 267th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 175 forensic psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 forensic psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in forensic psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in forensic psychology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree forensic psychology students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forensic Psychology in the Southeast Region

1

St. Andrews University
Laurinburg, North Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Andrews University landed the #1 spot on the list. Laurinburg, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s forensic psychology degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.

Full St. Andrews Forensic Psychology Report

2

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region list. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s forensic psychology degrees to 17 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.

Read full report on Forensic Psychology at Florida Tech

3

Faulkner University
Montgomery, Alabama

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Faulkner University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s forensic psychology students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Full Faulkner University Forensic Psychology Report

4

Columbia College
Columbia, South Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Forensic Psychology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia College landed the #4 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s forensic psychology degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Forensic Psychology at Columbia College South Carolina

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.