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 | 5000 | 71200 | 0.9295 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 2 | Santa Ana College | 6300 | 23100 | 0.7268 | 26,073 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Wellesley College | 7000 | 91300 | 0.9235 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 4 | Amherst College | 7100 | 96100 | 0.9266 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 5 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22700 | 0.6463 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 6 | Smith College | 8300 | 94500 | 0.9125 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 7 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 89000 | 0.9018 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 8 | Pomona College | 8800 | 89000 | 0.9006 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 9 | Washington and Lee University | 8900 | 96400 | 0.908 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 10 | Haverford College | 9100 | 97600 | 0.9068 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania | 9100 | 93000 | 0.9018 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 12 | St Olaf College | 9300 | 75900 | 0.8775 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 13 | Grinnell College | 9400 | 91400 | 0.8973 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 14 | Davidson College | 9800 | 89900 | 0.891 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 15 | Colgate University | 10000 | 91600 | 0.8904 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 16 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 10200 | 94400 | 0.892 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 16 | Swarthmore College | 10200 | 89200 | 0.886 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 16 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38600 | 0.7368 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 19 | Lake Forest College | 10700 | 76000 | 0.8587 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 19 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 10700 | 28400 | 0.6225 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 21 | Trinity College | 10900 | 92800 | 0.8828 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 22 | Bates College | 11300 | 91900 | 0.8768 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 23 | Vassar College | 11500 | 92300 | 0.8755 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 24 | Northeastern State University | 11800 | 22900 | 0.4839 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 24 | Santa Monica College | 11800 | 20900 | 0.4365 | 23,164 | 0 | 0.4384 | |
| 26 | University of California-Irvine | 11900 | 43300 | 0.7257 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 27 | Lafayette College | 12000 | 85800 | 0.8606 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 28 | Middlebury College | 12300 | 89800 | 0.8629 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 29 | Bowdoin College | 12400 | 89900 | 0.8623 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 30 | University of California-Riverside | 12700 | 66000 | 0.808 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 31 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 12900 | 26800 | 0.5178 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 31 | University of North Alabama | 12900 | 31300 | 0.587 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 33 | Pitzer College | 13400 | 92500 | 0.8549 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 34 | Duke University | 13500 | 93600 | 0.856 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 35 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 34500 | 0.605 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 36 | Kansas State University | 13700 | 26100 | 0.4753 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 37 | New York University | 14600 | 91800 | 0.8407 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 37 | University of North Florida | 14600 | 22400 | 0.3487 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 39 | Albion College | 15000 | 93700 | 0.8399 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 39 | University of North Georgia | 15000 | 48000 | 0.6875 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 41 | Northeastern University | 15300 | 89900 | 0.8298 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 42 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 15600 | 46800 | 0.6664 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 43 | Trinity University | 15700 | 65800 | 0.761 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 44 | University of California-Berkeley | 16400 | 43600 | 0.6231 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 16800 | 25900 | 0.3517 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 46 | Scripps College | 17100 | 93800 | 0.8177 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 47 | Denison University | 17200 | 69300 | 0.7512 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 48 | Canisius University | 17300 | 64800 | 0.7335 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 49 | Barnard College | 17600 | 106000 | 0.8343 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 50 | Macalester College | 17800 | 89900 | 0.8016 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 51 | Lee University | 17900 | 37400 | 0.5217 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 52 | Union College | 18200 | 92400 | 0.8029 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 53 | Georgia College & State University | 18300 | 18300 | 0 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 53 | University of Rochester | 18300 | 93100 | 0.8037 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 55 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18800 | 30900 | 0.3927 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 56 | College of Coastal Georgia | 19200 | 42400 | 0.5467 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 57 | University of Nevada-Reno | 19300 | 31800 | 0.3933 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 58 | Carleton College | 19500 | 74500 | 0.7382 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 59 | Niagara University | 19800 | 62900 | 0.6847 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 60 | Pennsylvania Western University | 21200 | 28100 | 0.2458 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 61 | Cottey College | 21300 | 37300 | 0.4292 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 62 | Luther College | 21500 | 71900 | 0.7011 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 63 | Loyola University New Orleans | 21700 | 72100 | 0.6988 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 64 | Sterling College | 21900 | 64300 | 0.6594 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 65 | Creighton University | 22200 | 86200 | 0.7427 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 66 | Regis University | 23300 | 67200 | 0.6529 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 67 | Wilson College | 24300 | 43300 | 0.4385 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 68 | Whitman College | 24400 | 84800 | 0.7126 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 69 | Occidental College | 25200 | 88100 | 0.7137 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 70 | University of Kansas | 25500 | 42000 | 0.3924 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 71 | Westminster University | 25600 | 81400 | 0.6856 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 72 | Earlham College | 26500 | 75800 | 0.6509 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 73 | St. Francis College | 26600 | 39400 | 0.3253 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 74 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27300 | 61400 | 0.5549 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 75 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 27400 | 40300 | 0.32 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 76 | Agnes Scott College | 27600 | 69200 | 0.6009 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 77 | Murray State University | 27800 | 32400 | 0.1414 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 78 | Knox College | 28200 | 68800 | 0.5901 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 79 | Gannon University | 30000 | 45300 | 0.3378 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 80 | The College of Wooster | 31100 | 83100 | 0.6264 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 81 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31200 | 44000 | 0.2911 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 82 | Southern Nazarene University | 32200 | 48400 | 0.334 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 82 | University of Central Missouri | 32200 | 34300 | 0.0606 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 84 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32500 | 39500 | 0.1772 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 85 | LeTourneau University | 34100 | 54800 | 0.378 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 86 | Pace University | 34500 | 100800 | 0.6575 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 87 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35400 | 66700 | 0.4694 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 87 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 35400 | 82300 | 0.5699 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 89 | Western Kentucky University | 36600 | 42300 | 0.1347 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 90 | New York Institute of Technology | 39100 | 78600 | 0.5023 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 91 | Drexel University | 39600 | 83800 | 0.5277 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 92 | Montclair State University | 42000 | 46200 | 0.091 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 92 | Oglethorpe University | 42000 | 68600 | 0.3876 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 94 | Sacred Heart University | 43000 | 67500 | 0.3632 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 95 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43700 | 68800 | 0.3647 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 96 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48700 | 94900 | 0.4867 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 97 | University of California-Merced | 48800 | 88800 | 0.4505 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 98 | University of Utah | 51600 | 53700 | 0.0386 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 99 | University of Oregon | 59400 | 68900 | 0.1389 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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