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 | Davidson College | 2800 | 95600 | 0.9704 | 1,860 | 1463 | 0.1262 | |
| 2 | Stanford University | 3500 | 1932400 | 0.9982 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania | 3600 | 93100 | 0.9618 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 4 | Amherst College | 4800 | 99300 | 0.9513 | 1,907 | 1500 | 0.0772 | |
| 5 | Trinity College | 5900 | 92800 | 0.936 | 2,112 | 1404 | 0.2953 | |
| 6 | Santa Monica College | 6400 | 15500 | 0.588 | 23,453 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Swarthmore College | 6900 | 94600 | 0.9272 | 1,631 | 1513 | 0.0752 | |
| 8 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 7000 | 41500 | 0.8321 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 9 | Smith College | 7800 | 97700 | 0.9199 | 2,578 | 1466 | 0.2241 | |
| 10 | Brigham Young University | 8100 | 22300 | 0.6382 | 34,354 | 1374 | 0.6862 | |
| 11 | Colgate University | 8200 | 95800 | 0.9144 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 12 | Pomona College | 8600 | 89300 | 0.9036 | 1,721 | 1499 | 0.0714 | |
| 13 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8700 | 98000 | 0.9113 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 14 | Bates College | 8900 | 92900 | 0.904 | 1,736 | 1412 | 0.1483 | |
| 15 | Washington and Lee University | 9000 | 96300 | 0.9062 | 1,916 | 1484 | 0.1354 | |
| 16 | Grinnell College | 9100 | 93600 | 0.9025 | 1,668 | 1469 | 0.1605 | |
| 17 | University of Richmond | 9500 | 92700 | 0.8971 | 3,052 | 1472 | 0.2224 | |
| 18 | University of California-Berkeley | 9900 | 44500 | 0.778 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 18 | Western Kentucky University | 9900 | 27800 | 0.6421 | 13,732 | 1090 | 0.9145 | |
| 20 | Wellesley College | 10000 | 95500 | 0.8956 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 21 | University of Nevada-Reno | 10100 | 32500 | 0.6894 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 22 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38700 | 0.7376 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 23 | Middlebury College | 10500 | 94500 | 0.8892 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 24 | University of Rochester | 10600 | 96300 | 0.8901 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 25 | Vassar College | 11100 | 93100 | 0.8808 | 2,514 | 1488 | 0.2093 | |
| 26 | Bowdoin College | 11300 | 96700 | 0.883 | 1,841 | 1499 | 0.0681 | |
| 27 | Cornell University | 11600 | 93700 | 0.8761 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 27 | Lafayette College | 11600 | 91000 | 0.8721 | 2,675 | 1415 | 0.3116 | |
| 27 | University of California-Merced | 11600 | 40700 | 0.7153 | 8,234 | 1070 | 0.9704 | |
| 30 | St Olaf College | 12100 | 79500 | 0.8477 | 3,114 | 1374 | 0.4338 | |
| 31 | Albion College | 12200 | 78100 | 0.8441 | 1,168 | 1065 | 0.7437 | |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 12600 | 21300 | 0.4083 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 33 | Hamilton College | 12700 | 98000 | 0.8704 | 1,980 | 1484 | 0.1359 | |
| 34 | Northeastern State University | 12900 | 28600 | 0.5499 | 5,145 | 1035 | 0.9974 | |
| 35 | University of North Florida | 13000 | 28100 | 0.5375 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 36 | Denison University | 13100 | 69300 | 0.8115 | 2,458 | 1366 | 0.1955 | |
| 37 | Scripps College | 13300 | 93900 | 0.8584 | 1,103 | 1472 | 0.3988 | |
| 38 | Trinity University | 13400 | 67000 | 0.7996 | 2,423 | 1408 | 0.2488 | |
| 39 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.6095 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 40 | Carleton College | 13800 | 74500 | 0.8141 | 1,974 | 1492 | 0.2178 | |
| 41 | Pitzer College | 13900 | 93200 | 0.8507 | 1,193 | 1279 | 0.2685 | |
| 42 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 14300 | 26300 | 0.4559 | 4,056 | 1090 | 0.4151 | |
| 43 | University of California-Riverside | 14400 | 36500 | 0.6053 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 43 | University of North Alabama | 14400 | 37300 | 0.614 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 45 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 14500 | 71500 | 0.7975 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 46 | Colorado College | 15000 | 98000 | 0.8465 | 1,887 | 1357 | 0.2209 | |
| 46 | University of California-Irvine | 15000 | 40400 | 0.6285 | 30,260 | 1333 | 0.2895 | |
| 48 | Macalester College | 15100 | 94900 | 0.8413 | 2,068 | 1415 | 0.2813 | |
| 49 | Kansas State University | 15600 | 26400 | 0.4097 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 50 | University of Central Missouri | 15700 | 26600 | 0.4094 | 10,397 | 1055 | 0.7439 | |
| 51 | Santa Ana College | 15900 | 35300 | 0.5498 | 27,248 | 0 | 0 | |
| 52 | Niagara University | 16100 | 57400 | 0.7192 | 2,638 | 1170 | 0.876 | |
| 53 | Union College | 16500 | 93300 | 0.8231 | 1,954 | 1399 | 0.4342 | |
| 54 | Haverford College | 17100 | 101400 | 0.8314 | 1,420 | 1490 | 0.1331 | |
| 55 | Duke University | 17300 | 98500 | 0.8246 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 56 | Barnard College | 17500 | 99700 | 0.8241 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 57 | Northeastern University | 17600 | 90000 | 0.8041 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 58 | Occidental College | 17700 | 88200 | 0.7997 | 1,822 | 1440 | 0.4485 | |
| 59 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 47900 | 0.6257 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 60 | Whitman College | 19500 | 84800 | 0.7699 | 1,468 | 1397 | 0.4016 | |
| 61 | Cottey College | 19700 | 37300 | 0.4714 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 62 | College of Coastal Georgia | 21000 | 51600 | 0.5929 | 3,609 | 1005 | 0.9885 | |
| 63 | Luther College | 21400 | 75400 | 0.7164 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 64 | Stetson University | 21800 | 81100 | 0.7315 | 2,414 | 1089 | 0.7167 | |
| 65 | Sterling College | 22000 | 77400 | 0.7155 | 649 | 1103 | 0.8759 | |
| 66 | Pennsylvania Western University | 22500 | 34400 | 0.3456 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 67 | Creighton University | 24700 | 67900 | 0.6361 | 4,833 | 1328 | 0.9216 | |
| 67 | Wilson College | 24700 | 44400 | 0.4433 | 1,379 | 1055 | 0.9211 | |
| 69 | Lake Forest College | 24800 | 76000 | 0.6733 | 1,786 | 1304 | 0.5363 | |
| 70 | University of Kansas | 26100 | 44400 | 0.4124 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 71 | Earlham College | 26200 | 75800 | 0.6538 | 670 | 1237 | 0.7904 | |
| 72 | St. Francis College | 26800 | 39400 | 0.3202 | 1,719 | 1035 | 1 | |
| 73 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27300 | 61400 | 0.5549 | 1,804 | 1159 | 0.7258 | |
| 74 | Murray State University | 27500 | 32400 | 0.1513 | 8,217 | 1124 | 0.8413 | |
| 75 | Canisius University | 27700 | 54700 | 0.4939 | 1,728 | 1186 | 0.7323 | |
| 76 | Knox College | 28100 | 68800 | 0.5915 | 1,108 | 1274 | 0.772 | |
| 77 | University of Utah | 28600 | 32000 | 0.1061 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 78 | New York University | 28900 | 92100 | 0.6862 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 79 | University of Toledo | 30600 | 42000 | 0.2715 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 80 | The College of Wooster | 30800 | 83100 | 0.6291 | 1,515 | 1345 | 0.6438 | |
| 80 | Woodbury University | 30800 | 66600 | 0.5376 | 725 | 1087 | 0.7143 | |
| 82 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 31600 | 75200 | 0.5798 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 83 | Southern Nazarene University | 31900 | 48400 | 0.3407 | 1,473 | 1055 | 1 | |
| 83 | Westminster University | 31900 | 94100 | 0.6612 | 868 | 1205 | 0.6513 | |
| 85 | University of Oregon | 33100 | 40200 | 0.1784 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 86 | Pace University | 33700 | 75700 | 0.5551 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 87 | New York Institute of Technology | 35300 | 83600 | 0.5781 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 88 | Berry College | 35600 | 62400 | 0.4293 | 2,262 | 1219 | 0.7315 | |
| 89 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 36200 | 54400 | 0.3346 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 90 | Agnes Scott College | 36300 | 71200 | 0.49 | 731 | 1219 | 0.6353 | |
| 91 | Loyola University New Orleans | 36700 | 74600 | 0.5079 | 2,871 | 1150 | 0.9058 | |
| 92 | Baldwin Wallace University | 38800 | 69800 | 0.4443 | 2,532 | 1210 | 0.7739 | |
| 93 | Drexel University | 39100 | 86400 | 0.5475 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 93 | University of Charleston | 39100 | 51200 | 0.2361 | 2,348 | 1075 | 0.5975 | |
| 95 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 40800 | 55300 | 0.2624 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 96 | Oglethorpe University | 41700 | 68600 | 0.3923 | 1,338 | 1205 | 0.898 | |
| 97 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43300 | 68700 | 0.3694 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 98 | Texas Christian University | 44400 | 87400 | 0.4921 | 11,152 | 1268 | 0.4809 | |
| 99 | LeTourneau University | 44700 | 57300 | 0.2198 | 2,903 | 1242 | 0.4879 | |
| 100 | Sacred Heart University | 49400 | 67500 | 0.2681 | 7,291 | 1265 | 0.6363 | |
| 101 | University of North Georgia | 49900 | 57000 | 0.1245 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 102 | Georgia College & State University | 52400 | 52400 | 0 | 6,250 | 1165 | 0.8466 | |
| 103 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 53900 | 96100 | 0.439 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 104 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60600 | 63000 | 0.038 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 104 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 60600 | 67600 | 0.1035 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.
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