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2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$14,142 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$27,812 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Behavioral Science School for You

With 21 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, behavioral science is the #196 most popular major in California.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which programs offered the best value experiences for behavioral science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Behavioral Science Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Behavioral Science

#1

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA
$7,304 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found San Francisco State University to be the best value school for behavioral science students who want to pursue a degree in California. SFSU is a very large public school located in the large city of San Francisco.

SFSU undergraduate students pay an average of $7,304 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Behavioral Science at San Francisco State University

$20,980 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Institute of Integral Studies. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Behavioral Science Schools in California list. Located in the large city of San Francisco, CIIS is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CIIS are $20,980 per year.

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 83

One of 36 majors within the area of study, behavioral science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Sustainability Science 1,547
Nutrition Science 1,496
Computational Science 1,063
International Studies 918

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Polimerek.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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