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Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in Pennsylvania.
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 Pennsylvania.
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 | 6,354 | 1554 | 0.0611 | |
| 3 | Wesleyan University | 4900 | 97600 | 0.9503 | 3,043 | 1435 | 0.1637 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5500 | 91300 | 0.9394 | 2,360 | 1477 | 0.0803 | |
| 5 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6800 | 15400 | 0.5594 | 207 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 8900 | 40100 | 0.7775 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 7 | Florida Atlantic University | 9100 | 26900 | 0.6629 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 8 | University of Tulsa | 9800 | 63100 | 0.8452 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 9 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 11500 | 31400 | 0.6338 | 14,249 | 1084 | 0.7761 | |
| 10 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 11800 | 39000 | 0.6966 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 11 | Brown University | 11900 | 94000 | 0.8733 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 12 | Northern Arizona University | 12100 | 30400 | 0.6012 | 22,203 | 1129 | 0.8961 | |
| 13 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 13300 | 43000 | 0.6907 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 13 | University of North Florida | 13300 | 30500 | 0.5638 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 15 | Baptist Health Sciences University | 14200 | 27600 | 0.4864 | 782 | 1020 | 0.8202 | |
| 16 | University of West Georgia | 15500 | 24600 | 0.3703 | 10,075 | 1035 | 0.7995 | |
| 17 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 29800 | 0.4782 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8613 | |
| 18 | Duke University | 15800 | 98600 | 0.8396 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 19 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 16100 | 26900 | 0.4031 | 9,847 | 1090 | 0.9309 | |
| 19 | Lindsey Wilson University | 16100 | 48700 | 0.6697 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 21 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16300 | 65300 | 0.7501 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 21 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5554 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 21 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16300 | 64800 | 0.7481 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 24 | Franklin and Marshall College | 17000 | 89900 | 0.8111 | 1,778 | 1387 | 0.3163 | |
| 25 | Centre College | 17900 | 73400 | 0.7557 | 1,385 | 1323 | 0.4816 | |
| 26 | San Jose State University | 18300 | 41100 | 0.5542 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 26 | University of Vermont | 18300 | 37800 | 0.5164 | 12,159 | 1372 | 0.7304 | |
| 28 | Columbia College | 18400 | 60700 | 0.6964 | 1,566 | 950 | 0.966 | |
| 29 | Villanova University | 18700 | 88100 | 0.7876 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 30 | Seton Hill University | 19000 | 62900 | 0.6977 | 1,502 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 31 | Life Pacific University | 19200 | 60100 | 0.6805 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 32 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 19300 | 38900 | 0.5034 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 33 | Pennsylvania Western University | 19600 | 31000 | 0.3679 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 34 | Albright College | 20000 | 50700 | 0.6044 | 1,210 | 1079 | 0.9408 | |
| 35 | University of Southern California | 20100 | 76400 | 0.7373 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 36 | Rowan University | 20500 | 41300 | 0.5039 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 37 | East Texas Baptist University | 21000 | 68900 | 0.6952 | 1,663 | 1059 | 0.7306 | |
| 38 | Mount Aloysius College | 21400 | 48500 | 0.5584 | 3,135 | 1045 | 0.936 | |
| 38 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 21400 | 41600 | 0.4856 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 40 | University of Kansas | 22000 | 44400 | 0.5042 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 41 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22700 | 85400 | 0.7341 | 3,007 | 1135 | 0.8572 | |
| 42 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23200 | 28100 | 0.1731 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 43 | Central Washington University | 23600 | 27900 | 0.1544 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 44 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 46,249 | 1180 | 0.6085 | |
| 45 | Point Park University | 24000 | 54400 | 0.5586 | 2,498 | 1144 | 0.984 | |
| 45 | University of Jamestown | 24000 | 34400 | 0.3013 | 1,097 | 1055 | 0.88 | |
| 47 | Walsh University | 24400 | 46400 | 0.4753 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 48 | Saint Francis University | 24900 | 61600 | 0.5956 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 49 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 25000 | 43400 | 0.4238 | 18,194 | 1281 | 0.7273 | |
| 50 | George Fox University | 26600 | 92800 | 0.7136 | 3,530 | 1168 | 0.9282 | |
| 51 | Wayland Baptist University | 26700 | 36500 | 0.2683 | 1,894 | 1045 | 0.5477 | |
| 52 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 94100 | 0.7078 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 53 | Cornell College | 27900 | 74800 | 0.6267 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 54 | Wayne State University | 28200 | 46800 | 0.3977 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 55 | Elizabethtown College | 29100 | 55300 | 0.4743 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 56 | Taylor University | 30100 | 60700 | 0.5048 | 2,769 | 1229 | 0.9881 | |
| 57 | Houston Christian University | 30700 | 60500 | 0.4928 | 3,277 | 1099 | 0.8645 | |
| 57 | Southern Adventist University | 30700 | 49000 | 0.3746 | 2,946 | 1142 | 0.7163 | |
| 59 | Missouri Baptist University | 31300 | 53800 | 0.4193 | 5,253 | 910 | 0.7062 | |
| 60 | Chaminade University of Honolulu | 31900 | 78800 | 0.5952 | 1,732 | 1108 | 0.9117 | |
| 61 | Harding University | 33200 | 47800 | 0.3047 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 62 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33600 | 75200 | 0.5533 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 63 | Pace University | 33900 | 75700 | 0.5525 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 63 | Temple University | 33900 | 57200 | 0.4071 | 21,031 | 1172 | 0.8622 | |
| 65 | California Baptist University | 34300 | 69800 | 0.5084 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 65 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34300 | 50900 | 0.3256 | 1,961 | 1099 | 0.7512 | |
| 67 | Andrews University | 37100 | 76700 | 0.5161 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 68 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 39900 | 59200 | 0.3258 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 69 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40300 | 83400 | 0.5171 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 70 | Rochester Christian University | 42900 | 45400 | 0.0565 | 1,162 | 970 | 0.9764 | |
| 70 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 42900 | 88100 | 0.5129 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 72 | Wagner College | 46600 | 73400 | 0.3649 | 1,666 | 1240 | 0.88 | |
| 73 | University of Delaware | 47800 | 62400 | 0.2344 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 74 | Quinnipiac University | 49000 | 79700 | 0.3854 | 6,610 | 1250 | 0.7031 | |
| 75 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 49400 | 67600 | 0.2693 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 76 | The University of Texas at Austin | 49700 | 58900 | 0.1562 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 77 | University of Iowa | 51800 | 54400 | 0.0472 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 78 | Mount St. Joseph University | 53900 | 54300 | 0.0074 | 1,268 | 1105 | 0.9128 | |
| 79 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58400 | 67000 | 0.1279 | 5,288 | 1138 | 0.9459 | |
| 80 | University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis | 60500 | 65600 | 0.0778 | 344 | 1125 | 0.8984 | |
| 81 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 61300 | 66900 | 0.0837 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.