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Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in Texas.
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 Texas.
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 | 91800 | 0.9709 | 6,354 | 1554 | 0.0611 | |
| 3 | Wesleyan University | 5000 | 97600 | 0.9492 | 3,043 | 1435 | 0.1637 | |
| 4 | Colby College | 5500 | 114900 | 0.9519 | 2,360 | 1477 | 0.0803 | |
| 5 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6700 | 13900 | 0.5181 | 207 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Dallas College | 8000 | 19000 | 0.578 | 125,613 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 8500 | 25300 | 0.6637 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 8 | University of Tulsa | 9900 | 82000 | 0.879 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 9 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10200 | 10300 | 0.0106 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 10 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 11800 | 31400 | 0.6243 | 14,249 | 1084 | 0.7761 | |
| 11 | Northern Arizona University | 12300 | 35800 | 0.6566 | 22,203 | 1129 | 0.8961 | |
| 12 | Houston City College | 12700 | 18900 | 0.3281 | 59,451 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | San Jacinto Community College | 13300 | 16800 | 0.208 | 33,215 | 1135 | 1 | |
| 14 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 14 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.608 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 16 | Brown University | 13900 | 120200 | 0.8843 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 17 | Baptist Health Sciences University | 14100 | 26600 | 0.4691 | 782 | 1020 | 0.8202 | |
| 18 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 29800 | 0.4782 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8613 | |
| 19 | University of West Georgia | 15800 | 24600 | 0.3581 | 10,075 | 1035 | 0.7995 | |
| 20 | Duke University | 16000 | 98500 | 0.8377 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 20 | Franklin and Marshall College | 16000 | 115900 | 0.8616 | 1,778 | 1387 | 0.3163 | |
| 22 | Lindsey Wilson University | 16100 | 47500 | 0.6614 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 23 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16500 | 48200 | 0.6581 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 24 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16600 | 64800 | 0.7439 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 25 | The University of Texas at Austin | 16700 | 28200 | 0.4064 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 26 | Centre College | 17900 | 73100 | 0.7551 | 1,385 | 1323 | 0.4816 | |
| 27 | Albright College | 18000 | 56800 | 0.6836 | 1,210 | 1079 | 0.9408 | |
| 28 | University of Vermont | 18300 | 37800 | 0.5164 | 12,159 | 1372 | 0.7304 | |
| 29 | Columbia College | 18500 | 60700 | 0.6947 | 1,566 | 950 | 0.966 | |
| 30 | Central Washington University | 19000 | 22700 | 0.1628 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 30 | San Jose State University | 19000 | 41100 | 0.5379 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 32 | Life Pacific University | 19500 | 47100 | 0.586 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 33 | Wayland Baptist University | 20200 | 36500 | 0.4466 | 1,894 | 1045 | 0.5477 | |
| 34 | University of Southern California | 20400 | 76200 | 0.7322 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 35 | East Texas Baptist University | 21800 | 46800 | 0.5341 | 1,663 | 1059 | 0.7306 | |
| 36 | University of North Florida | 22400 | 22400 | 0 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 37 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 23000 | 60400 | 0.6191 | 3,007 | 1135 | 0.8572 | |
| 38 | Point Park University | 23300 | 70900 | 0.6715 | 2,498 | 1144 | 0.984 | |
| 39 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23500 | 28100 | 0.1633 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 40 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 46,249 | 1180 | 0.6085 | |
| 41 | Walsh University | 24700 | 46400 | 0.4674 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 42 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 25000 | 31600 | 0.2086 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 43 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 25600 | 80500 | 0.6823 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 44 | University of Kansas | 25700 | 43000 | 0.402 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 45 | George Fox University | 27100 | 95400 | 0.7162 | 3,530 | 1168 | 0.9282 | |
| 46 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,097 | 1055 | 0.88 | |
| 47 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 94100 | 0.7078 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 48 | Cornell College | 28100 | 74800 | 0.6242 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 49 | Mount Aloysius College | 28200 | 63500 | 0.5561 | 3,135 | 1045 | 0.936 | |
| 50 | Wayne State University | 28300 | 46800 | 0.3956 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 51 | Southern Adventist University | 29700 | 46900 | 0.3666 | 2,946 | 1142 | 0.7163 | |
| 52 | University of Iowa | 29800 | 32100 | 0.0714 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 53 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 30100 | 59100 | 0.4904 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 54 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.474 | 2,769 | 1229 | 0.9881 | |
| 55 | Missouri Baptist University | 31500 | 53800 | 0.4142 | 5,253 | 910 | 0.7062 | |
| 56 | Villanova University | 32500 | 114000 | 0.715 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 57 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33200 | 75200 | 0.5587 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 58 | Seton Hill University | 33400 | 89200 | 0.6255 | 1,502 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 59 | Harding University | 33500 | 47800 | 0.299 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 60 | Elizabethtown College | 33800 | 69900 | 0.5167 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 61 | California Baptist University | 34500 | 69100 | 0.5009 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 62 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34600 | 50900 | 0.3202 | 1,961 | 1099 | 0.7512 | |
| 63 | Houston Christian University | 35700 | 59200 | 0.3971 | 3,277 | 1099 | 0.8645 | |
| 64 | Andrews University | 37200 | 76700 | 0.5148 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 65 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 37400 | 63100 | 0.407 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 66 | Chaminade University of Honolulu | 37500 | 57700 | 0.3502 | 1,732 | 1108 | 0.9117 | |
| 67 | University of California-Los Angeles | 40300 | 90200 | 0.5531 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 68 | Saint Francis University | 40400 | 81500 | 0.5043 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 69 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40600 | 102500 | 0.6041 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 70 | Pace University | 40700 | 75500 | 0.461 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 71 | Rochester Christian University | 43100 | 45400 | 0.0504 | 1,162 | 970 | 0.9764 | |
| 72 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 43200 | 108500 | 0.6019 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 73 | Florida Atlantic University | 44900 | 44900 | 0 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 74 | Wagner College | 46900 | 73400 | 0.3611 | 1,666 | 1240 | 0.88 | |
| 75 | Quinnipiac University | 50000 | 118300 | 0.5772 | 6,610 | 1250 | 0.7031 | |
| 76 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 77 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54000 | 69900 | 0.2276 | 1,268 | 1105 | 0.9128 | |
| 78 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 57900 | 65700 | 0.1188 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 79 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58700 | 67000 | 0.1238 | 5,288 | 1138 | 0.9459 | |
| 80 | University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis | 61100 | 61700 | 0.0097 | 344 | 1125 | 0.8984 | |
| 81 | University of California-Santa Cruz | 82900 | 82900 | 0 | 18,194 | 1281 | 0.7273 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.