Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in California.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Behavioral degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of California.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Air Force Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,114 | 1335 | 0.1409 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | Santa Ana College | 4500 | 23100 | 0.8046 | 27,248 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 4600 | 40700 | 0.886 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 5 | Colby College | 5300 | 91300 | 0.9416 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 6 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1484 | 0.1649 | |
| 7 | Santa Monica College | 6400 | 15500 | 0.588 | 23,453 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 7000 | 13600 | 0.4868 | 206 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Rio Hondo College | 7100 | 21600 | 0.6726 | 17,441 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10300 | 10300 | 0 | 6,139 | 1070 | 0.9052 | |
| 11 | University of Tulsa | 11200 | 62900 | 0.8216 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.6151 | |
| 12 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 11700 | 27800 | 0.5771 | 20,885 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 13 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 13100 | 43000 | 0.6956 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3297 | |
| 14 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8135 | |
| 15 | Brown University | 13900 | 94000 | 0.8521 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 15 | Duke University | 13900 | 93600 | 0.8517 | 6,523 | 1527 | 0.0571 | |
| 17 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 14800 | 33200 | 0.555 | 1,464 | 980 | 0.9792 | |
| 18 | University of Southern California | 15300 | 71400 | 0.786 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 19 | University of West Georgia | 15400 | 24600 | 0.3744 | 9,103 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 20 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 38800 | 0.5992 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8609 | |
| 21 | University of Kansas | 15700 | 34900 | 0.5492 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 22 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 15900 | 46400 | 0.6579 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 23 | The University of Montana-Western | 16300 | 25600 | 0.3629 | 1,335 | 990 | 0.9978 | |
| 23 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5555 | 33,475 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 25 | The University of Texas at Austin | 16600 | 28000 | 0.4076 | 43,165 | 1356 | 0.2664 | |
| 26 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8079 | 797 | 1370 | 0.4453 | |
| 26 | Lindsey Wilson College | 17200 | 47100 | 0.6351 | 1,722 | 0 | 0 | |
| 28 | Centre College | 17500 | 73000 | 0.7603 | 1,404 | 1314 | 0.5436 | |
| 29 | Houston Christian University | 17600 | 56800 | 0.6901 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8444 | |
| 30 | Life Pacific University | 18700 | 46900 | 0.602 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 31 | San Jose State University | 19000 | 40800 | 0.5349 | 28,008 | 1124 | 0.8461 | |
| 32 | Columbia College | 19200 | 35800 | 0.4637 | 1,391 | 950 | 0.9393 | |
| 33 | Illinois College | 19700 | 55200 | 0.6423 | 937 | 1059 | 0.7819 | |
| 34 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19900 | 78600 | 0.7467 | 17,885 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 35 | Franklin and Marshall College | 20000 | 90300 | 0.7785 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 36 | East Texas Baptist University | 20600 | 47500 | 0.5662 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 37 | Northern Michigan University | 20900 | 33100 | 0.3686 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 38 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22300 | 61100 | 0.6343 | 3,000 | 1130 | 0.8572 | |
| 39 | Central Washington University | 22800 | 27200 | 0.1616 | 10,317 | 1045 | 0.9062 | |
| 40 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23700 | 28100 | 0.1583 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 40 | Walsh University | 23700 | 46400 | 0.4888 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 42 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 23800 | 30600 | 0.2222 | 10,200 | 1325 | 0.6507 | |
| 43 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 26200 | 64300 | 0.5921 | 2,725 | 1100 | 0.8511 | |
| 44 | Albright College | 26600 | 49300 | 0.4604 | 1,230 | 1050 | 0.7633 | |
| 45 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 46 | George Fox University | 27700 | 69400 | 0.6012 | 3,354 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 47 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 27800 | 36400 | 0.236 | 5,160 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 48 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6855 | 7,004 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 49 | Concordia University-Irvine | 28200 | 72300 | 0.6099 | 1,544 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 49 | Cornell College | 28200 | 74800 | 0.623 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 51 | Southern Adventist University | 29800 | 46900 | 0.3637 | 2,929 | 1134 | 0.655 | |
| 52 | Mercy University | 29900 | 44500 | 0.3282 | 6,774 | 1135 | 0.8584 | |
| 53 | Saint Mary's College of California | 30600 | 77000 | 0.6028 | 1,954 | 1175 | 0.8653 | |
| 54 | California Baptist University | 30900 | 64800 | 0.5223 | 8,417 | 1070 | 0.8488 | |
| 55 | University of North Florida | 31000 | 33000 | 0.0607 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 56 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4733 | 2,503 | 1229 | 0.7353 | |
| 57 | Missouri Baptist University | 31700 | 53800 | 0.4116 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 58 | Elizabethtown College | 33600 | 55300 | 0.3925 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 59 | Harding University | 33700 | 47800 | 0.296 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 60 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4788 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 61 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34700 | 50900 | 0.3175 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 62 | Seton Hill University | 34900 | 65000 | 0.463 | 1,501 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 63 | Andrews University | 35000 | 70100 | 0.5008 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 64 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5755 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 65 | Florida International University | 36500 | 36800 | 0.0081 | 45,193 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 66 | Saint Francis University | 38000 | 63100 | 0.3978 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 67 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 40100 | 42500 | 0.0565 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 68 | Wayne State University | 40200 | 46200 | 0.1299 | 16,012 | 1174 | 0.8116 | |
| 69 | Pace University | 40600 | 74800 | 0.4571 | 8,038 | 1260 | 0.7592 | |
| 70 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 41500 | 53200 | 0.22 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.0473 | 1,161 | 970 | 0.9765 | |
| 72 | Florida Atlantic University | 44100 | 44400 | 0.0068 | 24,876 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 73 | Quinnipiac University | 44800 | 79200 | 0.4343 | 6,557 | 1245 | 0.7215 | |
| 74 | University of Delaware | 48000 | 61300 | 0.2171 | 20,026 | 1294 | 0.706 | |
| 75 | University of Iowa | 51000 | 53200 | 0.0404 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 76 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,100 | 1219 | 0.7766 | |
| 77 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54300 | 54300 | 0 | 1,545 | 1143 | 0.5912 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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