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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 | Houston Christian University | 0 | 56800 | 1 | 2,899 | 1090 | 0.8458 | |
| 1 | United States Air Force Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,124 | 1344 | 0.1393 | |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 92000 | 0.9704 | 6,356 | 1543 | 0.0644 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5100 | 90200 | 0.9432 | 2,412 | 1497 | 0.0709 | |
| 5 | Wesleyan University | 5800 | 93700 | 0.9385 | 3,805 | 1405 | 0.1649 | |
| 6 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 7500 | 13200 | 0.4311 | 215 | 0 | 0.8208 | |
| 7 | Franklin and Marshall College | 11400 | 90300 | 0.874 | 1,808 | 1396 | 0.2819 | |
| 8 | Duke University | 12000 | 93600 | 0.872 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 9 | Brown University | 12200 | 94000 | 0.8699 | 7,910 | 1535 | 0.0539 | |
| 10 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 12400 | 21100 | 0.4133 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 11 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 12500 | 33400 | 0.6253 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 12 | Florida Atlantic University | 13400 | 25800 | 0.4812 | 24,942 | 1130 | 0.6613 | |
| 13 | Lindsey Wilson College | 13500 | 60700 | 0.7771 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 13 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,919 | 1245 | 0.7844 | |
| 15 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 34500 | 0.6058 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 16 | Middle Tennessee State University | 14300 | 23300 | 0.3857 | 18,042 | 1140 | 0.6909 | |
| 17 | University of North Florida | 14700 | 22400 | 0.3442 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 18 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15100 | 29000 | 0.4808 | 5,241 | 1075 | 0.8613 | |
| 19 | The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga | 15800 | 25800 | 0.3846 | 9,982 | 1125 | 0.7702 | |
| 20 | Wayne State University | 15900 | 32900 | 0.5165 | 16,173 | 1174 | 0.7786 | |
| 21 | Central Washington University | 16000 | 27900 | 0.4272 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 22 | University of Memphis | 16100 | 29900 | 0.4612 | 15,770 | 1075 | 0.7203 | |
| 23 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16300 | 36700 | 0.5555 | 33,471 | 1399 | 0.0897 | |
| 24 | The University of Montana-Western | 16600 | 42900 | 0.6135 | 1,440 | 990 | 0.995 | |
| 25 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16800 | 64800 | 0.7416 | 21,075 | 1420 | 0.1534 | |
| 26 | Bennington College | 17200 | 89500 | 0.8078 | 797 | 1360 | 0.4453 | |
| 26 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 17200 | 28100 | 0.3891 | 946 | 1080 | 0.8271 | |
| 28 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 18300 | 46400 | 0.6061 | 767 | 1108 | 0.7277 | |
| 29 | Northern Michigan University | 19300 | 33100 | 0.417 | 6,684 | 1100 | 0.8402 | |
| 30 | University of West Georgia | 19600 | 24900 | 0.213 | 9,157 | 1040 | 0.5161 | |
| 31 | Illinois College | 19800 | 55200 | 0.642 | 940 | 1054 | 0.7819 | |
| 32 | San Jose State University | 20300 | 33600 | 0.3955 | 28,008 | 0 | 0.8461 | |
| 32 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 20300 | 78700 | 0.7421 | 17,901 | 1470 | 0.1681 | |
| 34 | University of Southern California | 20400 | 75800 | 0.7312 | 20,630 | 1492 | 0.0981 | |
| 35 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 20600 | 31400 | 0.344 | 13,921 | 1119 | 0.7468 | |
| 36 | University of Tulsa | 20800 | 62900 | 0.6693 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 37 | Centre College | 21000 | 73400 | 0.7135 | 1,356 | 1330 | 0.5434 | |
| 38 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 21900 | 53000 | 0.5873 | 5,731 | 1174 | 0.9064 | |
| 39 | East Texas Baptist University | 22300 | 58700 | 0.6198 | 1,634 | 1025 | 0.5776 | |
| 40 | Columbia College | 22900 | 39700 | 0.4237 | 1,268 | 950 | 0.9614 | |
| 41 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23100 | 72400 | 0.681 | 2,934 | 1130 | 0.9004 | |
| 42 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 44,904 | 1175 | 0.5466 | |
| 43 | Albright College | 23800 | 49300 | 0.5171 | 1,328 | 1050 | 0.8615 | |
| 44 | Life Pacific University | 24000 | 50300 | 0.5224 | 396 | 1055 | 0.9395 | |
| 45 | Walsh University | 24900 | 46400 | 0.463 | 1,423 | 1189 | 0.7815 | |
| 46 | University of Mount Saint Vincent | 25600 | 64100 | 0.6007 | 2,398 | 1059 | 0.8464 | |
| 47 | University of Kansas | 25900 | 44000 | 0.4117 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 48 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,049 | 1055 | 0.8808 | |
| 49 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 80600 | 0.6591 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 49 | Rowan University | 27500 | 41600 | 0.3386 | 16,199 | 1214 | 0.783 | |
| 51 | Villanova University | 27900 | 88800 | 0.6856 | 7,006 | 1457 | 0.2698 | |
| 52 | Cornell College | 28200 | 74800 | 0.6229 | 1,085 | 1243 | 0.8066 | |
| 52 | George Fox University | 28200 | 76800 | 0.6328 | 3,401 | 1193 | 0.9351 | |
| 54 | Mercy University | 29000 | 44500 | 0.3485 | 6,775 | 1074 | 0.8584 | |
| 55 | Southern Adventist University | 29900 | 46900 | 0.3634 | 2,827 | 1112 | 0.6661 | |
| 56 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 30200 | 50900 | 0.4056 | 1,903 | 1085 | 0.6944 | |
| 57 | Harding University | 30900 | 47000 | 0.3433 | 3,523 | 1193 | 0.3942 | |
| 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 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 32000 | 59600 | 0.4628 | 23,181 | 1354 | 0.3296 | |
| 61 | California Baptist University | 33500 | 65600 | 0.4891 | 8,417 | 1069 | 0.8535 | |
| 62 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 55900 | 0.3956 | 1,903 | 1214 | 0.7787 | |
| 63 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4787 | 12,276 | 1379 | 0.653 | |
| 64 | Pace University | 34600 | 74800 | 0.5373 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 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 | 37100 | 88000 | 0.5787 | 1,597 | 1180 | 0.7579 | |
| 68 | Saint Francis University | 38600 | 62800 | 0.3856 | 2,450 | 1150 | 0.7916 | |
| 69 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40800 | 83400 | 0.511 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 70 | Quinnipiac University | 41800 | 79200 | 0.4721 | 6,248 | 1209 | 0.77 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43300 | 45400 | 0.047 | 1,144 | 980 | 0.653 | |
| 72 | The University of Texas at Austin | 45300 | 45300 | 0 | 43,165 | 1348 | 0.2664 | |
| 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 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54200 | 54200 | 0 | 1,545 | 1134 | 0.5915 | |
| 76 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58900 | 67000 | 0.1214 | 5,162 | 1131 | 0.9502 | |
| 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.