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Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in Tennessee.
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 Tennessee.
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 | 7000 | 15400 | 0.5464 | 207 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 9000 | 40100 | 0.775 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 7 | University of Tulsa | 10000 | 63100 | 0.842 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 8 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10300 | 10300 | 0 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 9 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 11800 | 39000 | 0.6966 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 10 | Brown University | 11900 | 94000 | 0.8733 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 10 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 11900 | 31400 | 0.6211 | 14,249 | 1084 | 0.7761 | |
| 12 | Franklin and Marshall College | 12800 | 95700 | 0.8659 | 1,778 | 1387 | 0.3163 | |
| 13 | University of North Florida | 13500 | 22400 | 0.3978 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 14 | Baptist Health Sciences University | 14100 | 26000 | 0.4577 | 782 | 1020 | 0.8202 | |
| 15 | University of Memphis | 14700 | 26400 | 0.4441 | 15,538 | 1080 | 0.7878 | |
| 16 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 38800 | 0.5992 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8613 | |
| 17 | University of West Georgia | 15700 | 24600 | 0.3622 | 10,075 | 1035 | 0.7995 | |
| 18 | Duke University | 15800 | 98600 | 0.8396 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 19 | Austin Peay State University | 16100 | 31400 | 0.489 | 9,593 | 1075 | 0.9691 | |
| 19 | Lindsey Wilson University | 16100 | 48700 | 0.6697 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 21 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16300 | 64800 | 0.7481 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 22 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16600 | 65300 | 0.7455 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 23 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 16700 | 28100 | 0.4044 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 24 | Centre College | 17900 | 73400 | 0.7557 | 1,385 | 1323 | 0.4816 | |
| 25 | Albright College | 18000 | 51600 | 0.6514 | 1,210 | 1079 | 0.9408 | |
| 26 | Columbia College | 18300 | 60700 | 0.698 | 1,566 | 950 | 0.966 | |
| 27 | San Jose State University | 18600 | 41100 | 0.5469 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 28 | The University of Texas at Austin | 18900 | 28100 | 0.327 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 29 | Central Washington University | 19000 | 22700 | 0.1628 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 30 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 19500 | 38900 | 0.4983 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 31 | Life Pacific University | 19600 | 60100 | 0.6738 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 32 | University of Southern California | 20600 | 76400 | 0.7308 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 33 | East Texas Baptist University | 21400 | 68900 | 0.6894 | 1,663 | 1059 | 0.7306 | |
| 34 | University of Kansas | 22300 | 44400 | 0.4974 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 35 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23100 | 85400 | 0.7294 | 3,007 | 1135 | 0.8572 | |
| 36 | Point Park University | 23300 | 54300 | 0.5707 | 2,498 | 1144 | 0.984 | |
| 37 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 23600 | 34500 | 0.3162 | 10,396 | 1125 | 0.7162 | |
| 38 | Florida International University | 23700 | 34100 | 0.3049 | 46,249 | 1180 | 0.6085 | |
| 39 | Northern Arizona University | 23900 | 47000 | 0.493 | 22,203 | 1129 | 0.8961 | |
| 40 | University of Jamestown | 24000 | 34400 | 0.3013 | 1,097 | 1055 | 0.88 | |
| 41 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 24900 | 43400 | 0.4261 | 18,194 | 1281 | 0.7273 | |
| 41 | Walsh University | 24900 | 46400 | 0.4634 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 43 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 25800 | 50900 | 0.4927 | 1,961 | 1099 | 0.7512 | |
| 44 | Wayland Baptist University | 26600 | 36500 | 0.271 | 1,894 | 1045 | 0.5477 | |
| 45 | George Fox University | 27300 | 92800 | 0.706 | 3,530 | 1168 | 0.9282 | |
| 46 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 94100 | 0.7078 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 47 | Cornell College | 27900 | 74800 | 0.6267 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 47 | Mount Aloysius College | 27900 | 51100 | 0.4539 | 3,135 | 1045 | 0.936 | |
| 49 | Wayne State University | 28400 | 46800 | 0.3934 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 50 | University of Delaware | 28500 | 34500 | 0.1741 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 51 | Harding University | 29200 | 47800 | 0.3884 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 52 | Taylor University | 30100 | 60700 | 0.5048 | 2,769 | 1229 | 0.9881 | |
| 53 | Houston Christian University | 30700 | 60500 | 0.4928 | 3,277 | 1099 | 0.8645 | |
| 53 | Southern Adventist University | 30700 | 49000 | 0.3746 | 2,946 | 1142 | 0.7163 | |
| 55 | Missouri Baptist University | 31300 | 53800 | 0.4193 | 5,253 | 910 | 0.7062 | |
| 56 | Chaminade University of Honolulu | 31900 | 78800 | 0.5952 | 1,732 | 1108 | 0.9117 | |
| 57 | Villanova University | 32700 | 92900 | 0.6483 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 58 | Seton Hill University | 33600 | 63700 | 0.4727 | 1,502 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 59 | Elizabethtown College | 33700 | 57500 | 0.4137 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 60 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 34000 | 75200 | 0.548 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 60 | Pace University | 34000 | 75700 | 0.5512 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 62 | California Baptist University | 34200 | 69800 | 0.5098 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 63 | University of Vermont | 34300 | 66300 | 0.4821 | 12,159 | 1372 | 0.7304 | |
| 64 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 34800 | 59100 | 0.4109 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 65 | Andrews University | 37100 | 76700 | 0.5161 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 66 | Rowan University | 37500 | 53600 | 0.3002 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 67 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 39900 | 59200 | 0.3258 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 68 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40400 | 83400 | 0.5159 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 68 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40400 | 81800 | 0.5061 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 70 | Saint Francis University | 40600 | 67300 | 0.3966 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 42900 | 45400 | 0.0565 | 1,162 | 970 | 0.9764 | |
| 71 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 42900 | 88100 | 0.5129 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 73 | Florida Atlantic University | 45300 | 45300 | 0 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 74 | Wagner College | 46600 | 73400 | 0.3649 | 1,666 | 1240 | 0.88 | |
| 75 | Quinnipiac University | 48700 | 79700 | 0.3892 | 6,610 | 1250 | 0.7031 | |
| 76 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 49600 | 67600 | 0.2663 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 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 | 61200 | 66900 | 0.0852 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.