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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 | 4,124 | 1344 | 0.1393 | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 3 | Antelope Valley Community College District | 4400 | 12900 | 0.6547 | 12,937 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Santa Ana College | 4600 | 23100 | 0.8003 | 26,073 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Colby College | 5100 | 90200 | 0.9432 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 6 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1405 | 0.1649 | |
| 7 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 7500 | 13200 | 0.4311 | 215 | 0 | 0.8208 | |
| 8 | Franklin and Marshall College | 10300 | 90300 | 0.8862 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 9 | Duke University | 10900 | 93600 | 0.8838 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 10 | Brown University | 11100 | 94000 | 0.8816 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 11 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 11300 | 51900 | 0.7827 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 12 | Santa Monica College | 11700 | 33300 | 0.6478 | 23,164 | 0 | 0.4384 | |
| 13 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 11800 | 43000 | 0.7258 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 13 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 11800 | 33400 | 0.6462 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 15 | Lindsey Wilson College | 12500 | 60700 | 0.7936 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 16 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 34500 | 0.6058 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 17 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15100 | 29000 | 0.4808 | 5,241 | 1075 | 0.8613 | |
| 18 | Central Washington University | 15300 | 22700 | 0.3256 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 19 | University of North Florida | 15400 | 33000 | 0.5337 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 20 | University of Southern California | 16000 | 71400 | 0.7762 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 21 | The University of Montana-Western | 16100 | 42900 | 0.6252 | 1,440 | 990 | 0.995 | |
| 21 | Wayne State University | 16100 | 46200 | 0.6516 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 23 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5556 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 24 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16800 | 64800 | 0.7416 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 25 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8078 | 797 | 1360 | 0.4453 | |
| 26 | Houston Christian University | 17600 | 56800 | 0.6901 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8458 | |
| 27 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 17800 | 46400 | 0.6169 | 767 | 1108 | 0.7277 | |
| 28 | Northern Michigan University | 18300 | 33100 | 0.4472 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 29 | The University of Texas at Austin | 18900 | 27600 | 0.3147 | 43,165 | 1348 | 0.2664 | |
| 30 | University of West Georgia | 19100 | 24900 | 0.2331 | 9,157 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 31 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 19200 | 78700 | 0.7561 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 32 | San Jose State University | 19500 | 33700 | 0.4214 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 33 | University of Tulsa | 19700 | 62900 | 0.6868 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 34 | Illinois College | 19800 | 55200 | 0.642 | 940 | 1054 | 0.7819 | |
| 35 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 20400 | 42500 | 0.5206 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 36 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 20700 | 53000 | 0.61 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 37 | Centre College | 21100 | 73400 | 0.7121 | 1,356 | 1330 | 0.5434 | |
| 38 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 21500 | 38900 | 0.4469 | 1,919 | 1245 | 0.7844 | |
| 39 | East Texas Baptist University | 21700 | 58700 | 0.6301 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 40 | Columbia College | 22200 | 39700 | 0.4413 | 1,268 | 950 | 0.9614 | |
| 41 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22600 | 72400 | 0.6879 | 2,934 | 1130 | 0.9004 | |
| 42 | Life Pacific University | 22900 | 50400 | 0.5443 | 396 | 1055 | 0.9395 | |
| 43 | Albright College | 23700 | 49300 | 0.5192 | 1,328 | 1050 | 0.8615 | |
| 43 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 44,904 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 43 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23700 | 28100 | 0.1578 | 946 | 1080 | 0.8271 | |
| 46 | Walsh University | 23800 | 46400 | 0.4886 | 1,423 | 1189 | 0.7815 | |
| 47 | University of Kansas | 24900 | 44000 | 0.4344 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 48 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 25500 | 64100 | 0.6023 | 2,398 | 1059 | 0.8464 | |
| 49 | Concordia University-Irvine | 26800 | 80600 | 0.6679 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 50 | George Fox University | 27400 | 76800 | 0.6432 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 50 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 52 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 53 | Cornell College | 28200 | 74800 | 0.6229 | 1,085 | 1243 | 0.8066 | |
| 54 | Mercy University | 28400 | 44500 | 0.3619 | 6,775 | 1074 | 0.8584 | |
| 55 | Southern Adventist University | 29900 | 46900 | 0.3634 | 2,827 | 1112 | 0.6661 | |
| 56 | Saint Mary's College of California | 30600 | 77000 | 0.6028 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 57 | California Baptist University | 30900 | 64800 | 0.5223 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 58 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.4731 | 2,503 | 1235 | 0.7353 | |
| 59 | Missouri Baptist University | 31700 | 53800 | 0.4113 | 4,958 | 843 | 0.686 | |
| 60 | Harding University | 32900 | 47000 | 0.3008 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 61 | Elizabethtown College | 33600 | 55900 | 0.3992 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 62 | Pace University | 34500 | 74800 | 0.5387 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 62 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4787 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 64 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34700 | 50900 | 0.3172 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 65 | New York Institute of Technology | 35500 | 83600 | 0.5753 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 66 | Andrews University | 35800 | 62100 | 0.4235 | 1,312 | 1196 | 0.874 | |
| 67 | Seton Hill University | 36300 | 88000 | 0.5878 | 1,597 | 1180 | 0.7579 | |
| 68 | Saint Francis University | 37500 | 62800 | 0.4031 | 2,450 | 1150 | 0.7916 | |
| 69 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 39300 | 43400 | 0.0953 | 5,162 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 70 | Quinnipiac University | 41000 | 79200 | 0.4822 | 6,248 | 1209 | 0.77 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.047 | 1,144 | 980 | 0.653 | |
| 72 | Florida Atlantic University | 44400 | 44400 | 0 | 24,942 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 73 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 51000 | 84700 | 0.398 | 34,454 | 1435 | 0.1564 | |
| 74 | University of Iowa | 51100 | 53200 | 0.0401 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 75 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 76 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54200 | 54200 | 0 | 1,545 | 1134 | 0.5915 | |
| 77 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 10,200 | 1346 | 0.6507 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.