Behavioral Sciences

2,884 students earn a behavioral sciences credential each year across 81 US colleges. Earnings below are the median for each school's graduates one and five years after finishing; debt is the median federal loan balance at completion.

Typical earnings, 1 year out: $33,439
Typical earnings, 5 years out: $43,712

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Bachelor's programs — 53 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1Wilmington UniversityNew Castle, Delaware—$38,9371 year out$47,695$27,667 2Franklin and Marshall CollegeLancaster, Pennsylvania51$38,3911 year out—$19,000 3University of Phoenix-ArizonaPhoenix, Arizona69$38,0871 year out$43,712$49,770 4The University of Arizona Global CampusChandler, Arizona150$37,6611 year out$41,412$51,388 5East-West UniversityChicago, Illinois7$37,1351 year out——6University of KansasLawrence, Kansas62$36,2061 year out$50,529$25,000 7George Fox UniversityNewberg, Oregon42$34,6131 year out$56,034$30,813 8University of Wisconsin-Green BayGreen Bay, Wisconsin—$33,4391 year out$43,146$26,000 9University of Houston-Clear LakeHouston, Texas46$32,9861 year out—$27,224 10Concordia University-IrvineIrvine, California20$31,8991 year out$61,744$24,583 11Missouri Baptist UniversitySaint Louis, Missouri10$30,1471 year out—$26,400 12Life Pacific UniversitySan Dimas, California16$29,8301 year out—$27,000 13Concordia University-NebraskaSeward, Nebraska11$29,2731 year out$37,273$26,865 14University of California-Santa CruzSanta Cruz, California—$28,7091 year out—$17,500 15Purdue University NorthwestHammond, Indiana10$28,3401 year out—$16,012 16University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina503—1 year out——17University of IowaIowa City, Iowa327—1 year out——18Elizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown, Pennsylvania58—1 year out——19San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, California42—1 year out——20United States Air Force AcademyUSAF Academy, Colorado42—1 year out——21University of TulsaTulsa, Oklahoma39—1 year out——22Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island27—1 year out——23University of West GeorgiaCarrollton, Georgia25—1 year out——24California State University-Dominguez HillsCarson, California21—1 year out——25University of Maine at Fort KentFort Kent, Maine14—1 year out——26Saint Francis UniversityLoretto, Pennsylvania14—1 year out—$47,439 27The University of Tennessee SouthernPulaski, Tennessee14—1 year out——28Purdue University GlobalWest Lafayette, Indiana14—1 year out——29Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland12—1 year out—$12,375 30Glenville State UniversityGlenville, West Virginia11—1 year out——31Rowan UniversityGlassboro, New Jersey10—1 year out——32East Texas Baptist UniversityMarshall, Texas8—1 year out——33California Baptist UniversityRiverside, California7—1 year out—$25,680 34Athens State UniversityAthens, Alabama6—1 year out——35New Jersey Institute of TechnologyNewark, New Jersey6—1 year out——36Tennessee Wesleyan UniversityAthens, Tennessee6—1 year out——37Central Washington UniversityEllensburg, Washington6—1 year out——38Dakota Wesleyan UniversityMitchell, South Dakota5—1 year out——39University of Mount Saint VincentBronx, New York4—1 year out——40Andrews UniversityBerrien Springs, Michigan3—1 year out——41Rochester Christian UniversityRochester Hills, Michigan3—1 year out——42Duke UniversityDurham, North Carolina3—1 year out——43Point Park UniversityPittsburgh, Pennsylvania3—1 year out——44Columbia CollegeColumbia, South Carolina3—1 year out$36,262$33,539 45Sisseton Wahpeton CollegeSisseton, South Dakota3—1 year out——46Trevecca Nazarene UniversityNashville, Tennessee3—1 year out——47Mercy UniversityDobbs Ferry, New York2—1 year out——48Mount St. Joseph UniversityCincinnati, Ohio2—1 year out——49Metropolitan State University of DenverDenver, Colorado1—1 year out$47,252—50Northern Michigan UniversityMarquette, Michigan1—1 year out—$26,889 51The University of Montana-WesternDillon, Montana1—1 year out——52York College of PennsylvaniaYork, Pennsylvania——1 year out$41,027—53Mid-America Christian UniversityOklahoma City, Oklahoma——1 year out$30,240—

Associate programs — 25 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1San Jacinto Community CollegePasadena, Texas350$33,4941 year out$43,205$9,264 2University of Phoenix-ArizonaPhoenix, Arizona8$29,8771 year out$34,130$27,515 3Imperial Valley CollegeImperial, California153—1 year out——4Loyola University ChicagoChicago, Illinois38—1 year out—$5,701 5Glendale Community CollegeGlendale, Arizona31—1 year out——6Vincennes UniversityVincennes, Indiana28—1 year out$37,094$11,371 7Murray State CollegeTishomingo, Oklahoma28—1 year out——8South Mountain Community CollegePhoenix, Arizona20—1 year out——9American River CollegeSacramento, California18—1 year out——10Hill CollegeHillsboro, Texas17—1 year out—$15,250 11Lewis-Clark State CollegeLewiston, Idaho14—1 year out——12University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies OnlineManchester, New Hampshire14—1 year out——13Clovis Community CollegeClovis, New Mexico14—1 year out——14Temple CollegeTemple, Texas13—1 year out——15MiraCosta CollegeOceanside, California10—1 year out——16Chabot CollegeHayward, California9—1 year out——17Shasta CollegeRedding, California9—1 year out——18City College of San FranciscoSan Francisco, California4—1 year out——19College of the SiskiyousWeed, California2—1 year out——20Lynn UniversityBoca Raton, Florida2—1 year out——21Campbell UniversityBuies Creek, North Carolina2—1 year out——22Drury University-College of Continuing Professional StudiesSpringfield, Missouri2—1 year out——23New Mexico Highlands UniversityLas Vegas, New Mexico1—1 year out——24Sisseton Wahpeton CollegeSisseton, South Dakota1—1 year out——25Red Lake Nation CollegeRed Lake, Minnesota1—1 year out——

Certificate programs — 8 colleges

CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt

1University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMilwaukee, Wisconsin9$26,3311 year out$51,727$24,721 2Purdue University GlobalWest Lafayette, Indiana165—1 year out——3Glendale Community CollegeGlendale, Arizona77—1 year out——4South Mountain Community CollegePhoenix, Arizona57—1 year out——5University of Wisconsin-OshkoshOshkosh, Wisconsin31—1 year out——6Eastern Washington UniversityCheney, Washington7—1 year out——7Clemson UniversityClemson, South Carolina5—1 year out——8Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, Arizona1—1 year out——

US Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data (4-digit CIP). Graduates are conferrals in the most recent IPEDS year; earnings cover federally-aided completers who are working and not enrolled; medians for small programs are privacy-suppressed (—).