Considering a degree in Research and Experimental Psychology?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Research and Experimental Psychology majors who live in California.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Research and Experimental Psychology 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 | Stanford University | 3700 | 71300 | 0.948 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 2 | Amherst College | 5400 | 96100 | 0.9443 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 2 | Smith College | 5400 | 96700 | 0.9446 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 4 | Davidson College | 5600 | 89900 | 0.9381 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 4 | Pomona College | 5600 | 89000 | 0.9366 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 6 | Swarthmore College | 5900 | 93800 | 0.9373 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 7 | Colgate University | 6200 | 95700 | 0.9348 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 8 | Trinity College | 6500 | 92800 | 0.9302 | 2,204 | 1393 | 0.2925 | |
| 9 | Bowdoin College | 6600 | 89900 | 0.9268 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania | 7100 | 92900 | 0.9238 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 11 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22000 | 0.6362 | 32,952 | 1374 | 0.6778 | |
| 12 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 8200 | 30000 | 0.7264 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 13 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 98000 | 0.9146 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 14 | Grinnell College | 9400 | 91400 | 0.8973 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 14 | Washington and Lee University | 9400 | 96000 | 0.9024 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 14 | Wellesley College | 9400 | 91300 | 0.8972 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 17 | Bates College | 10000 | 91900 | 0.891 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 17 | University of Richmond | 10000 | 88400 | 0.887 | 3,055 | 1484 | 0.222 | |
| 19 | Haverford College | 10200 | 97600 | 0.8956 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 19 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38600 | 0.7368 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 21 | Hamilton College | 10300 | 89000 | 0.8839 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 22 | Vassar College | 10400 | 92600 | 0.8878 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 23 | Duke University | 10900 | 93600 | 0.8838 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 23 | Middlebury College | 10900 | 89900 | 0.879 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 25 | University of Michigan-Flint | 11200 | 45600 | 0.7541 | 5,011 | 1103 | 0.7047 | |
| 26 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 11300 | 41800 | 0.7295 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 27 | St Olaf College | 11400 | 75900 | 0.8498 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 28 | Santa Monica College | 11700 | 33300 | 0.6478 | 23,164 | 0 | 0.4384 | |
| 28 | University of California-Merced | 11700 | 39400 | 0.7035 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 30 | Cornell University | 11800 | 93100 | 0.8735 | 16,128 | 1521 | 0.0841 | |
| 31 | Lafayette College | 11900 | 85800 | 0.8618 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 32 | University of North Alabama | 12000 | 28200 | 0.5748 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 33 | Denison University | 13000 | 69300 | 0.8124 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 35 | Pitzer College | 13400 | 92500 | 0.8549 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 35 | Scripps College | 13400 | 93900 | 0.8567 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 37 | Northeastern State University | 13500 | 20800 | 0.3504 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 38 | Union College | 13600 | 92400 | 0.8527 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 39 | University of California-Riverside | 13700 | 36500 | 0.6244 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 40 | University of North Florida | 13800 | 22400 | 0.3844 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 41 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 13900 | 34100 | 0.5931 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 42 | Trinity University | 14400 | 65800 | 0.7808 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 43 | Northeastern University | 14500 | 89900 | 0.8387 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 44 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 14600 | 86200 | 0.8311 | 15,375 | 1179 | 0.866 | |
| 45 | Carleton College | 14900 | 74500 | 0.8001 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 45 | Macalester College | 14900 | 90000 | 0.8341 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 47 | Albion College | 15000 | 93700 | 0.8399 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 47 | Murray State University | 15000 | 27000 | 0.4438 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 49 | University of North Georgia | 15100 | 48000 | 0.6857 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 50 | University of California-Irvine | 15200 | 36300 | 0.5813 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 51 | Santa Ana College | 15900 | 35300 | 0.5498 | 26,073 | 0 | 0 | |
| 52 | Occidental College | 17500 | 88100 | 0.8011 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 52 | Western Kentucky University | 17500 | 27000 | 0.3538 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 54 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,269 | 1499 | 0.1147 | |
| 55 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 56 | Stetson University | 19900 | 79100 | 0.7488 | 2,349 | 1114 | 0.716 | |
| 57 | Whitman College | 20000 | 84800 | 0.764 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 58 | Georgia College & State University | 20200 | 52400 | 0.6144 | 6,006 | 1165 | 0.7823 | |
| 59 | University of Rochester | 20300 | 93100 | 0.7822 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 60 | Pennsylvania Western University | 20500 | 26600 | 0.2292 | 7,586 | 0 | 0.9433 | |
| 61 | Loyola University New Orleans | 20800 | 72100 | 0.7113 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 62 | Niagara University | 21300 | 57400 | 0.6287 | 2,692 | 1160 | 0.3972 | |
| 63 | Luther College | 21500 | 71900 | 0.7017 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 64 | Cottey College | 21800 | 37300 | 0.4151 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 65 | Sterling College | 21900 | 73100 | 0.6999 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 66 | Regis University | 23300 | 67200 | 0.6529 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 67 | New York University | 23600 | 91800 | 0.7427 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 68 | Lake Forest College | 23700 | 76000 | 0.6877 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 69 | University of Kansas | 24900 | 44000 | 0.4344 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 69 | Wilson College | 24900 | 44400 | 0.4404 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 71 | Westminster University | 25600 | 81400 | 0.6856 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 72 | St. Francis College | 26000 | 39400 | 0.3405 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 73 | College of Coastal Georgia | 26200 | 42100 | 0.3773 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 74 | Earlham College | 26400 | 75800 | 0.6515 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 75 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27300 | 61400 | 0.5549 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 76 | Woodbury University | 27500 | 66600 | 0.5871 | 825 | 1087 | 0.7287 | |
| 77 | Creighton University | 27900 | 65300 | 0.5724 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 78 | Knox College | 28200 | 68800 | 0.5901 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 79 | Canisius University | 28400 | 64800 | 0.5621 | 1,724 | 1180 | 0.7224 | |
| 80 | Kansas State University | 28700 | 41600 | 0.3089 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 81 | University of Utah | 28900 | 32000 | 0.098 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 82 | University of Toledo | 29500 | 32600 | 0.0961 | 11,013 | 1159 | 0.9202 | |
| 83 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31100 | 49800 | 0.3755 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 83 | The College of Wooster | 31100 | 83100 | 0.6259 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 85 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 31400 | 75200 | 0.5826 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 86 | University of Nevada-Reno | 31800 | 31800 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 87 | Southern Nazarene University | 32200 | 48400 | 0.3353 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 88 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32500 | 35100 | 0.0742 | 30,564 | 1302 | 0.416 | |
| 89 | University of Central Missouri | 33700 | 35800 | 0.0596 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 90 | LeTourneau University | 34100 | 54800 | 0.378 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 91 | Pace University | 34500 | 74800 | 0.5387 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 92 | Agnes Scott College | 35000 | 69200 | 0.494 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 93 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35400 | 66700 | 0.4694 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 94 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5753 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 95 | Berry College | 36100 | 60900 | 0.4074 | 2,254 | 1219 | 0.64 | |
| 96 | University of Charleston | 39100 | 51200 | 0.2361 | 2,087 | 1075 | 0.6458 | |
| 97 | Oglethorpe University | 41900 | 68600 | 0.3885 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 98 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42200 | 54700 | 0.2285 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University | 43000 | 67500 | 0.3632 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 100 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3665 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 101 | University of Delaware | 47300 | 61300 | 0.2292 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 102 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48700 | 92100 | 0.4715 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 103 | Drexel University | 48800 | 83800 | 0.4176 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 104 | University of Oregon | 66800 | 68900 | 0.031 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 105 | University of California-Berkeley | 70300 | 75900 | 0.0738 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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