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Considering a degree in Behavioral?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Behavioral majors who live in Virginia.
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 Virginia.
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 | Old Dominion University | 0 | 32400 | 1 | 17,504 | 1205 | 0.9135 | |
| 1 | United States Air Force Academy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,114 | 1335 | 0.1409 | |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University | 2700 | 91800 | 0.9709 | 6,354 | 1554 | 0.0611 | |
| 4 | Wesleyan University | 5000 | 97600 | 0.9492 | 3,043 | 1435 | 0.1637 | |
| 5 | Colby College | 5500 | 114900 | 0.9519 | 2,360 | 1477 | 0.0803 | |
| 6 | Sisseton Wahpeton College | 6500 | 13900 | 0.5325 | 207 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | University of Maine at Fort Kent | 8400 | 25300 | 0.6676 | 1,466 | 1078 | 0.4912 | |
| 8 | University of Tulsa | 9700 | 82000 | 0.8815 | 2,852 | 1328 | 0.615 | |
| 9 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10300 | 10300 | 0 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 10 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 11600 | 27800 | 0.582 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 11 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 12000 | 38700 | 0.6894 | 17,848 | 1470 | 0.1565 | |
| 12 | Northern Arizona University | 12300 | 35800 | 0.6566 | 22,203 | 1129 | 0.8961 | |
| 13 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 13500 | 13500 | 0 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 13 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.608 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 15 | Brown University | 13900 | 120200 | 0.8843 | 7,951 | 1500 | 0.0634 | |
| 16 | Baptist Health Sciences University | 14100 | 26600 | 0.4691 | 782 | 1020 | 0.8202 | |
| 17 | Northwest Missouri State University | 15600 | 29800 | 0.4782 | 5,241 | 1095 | 0.8613 | |
| 17 | University of West Georgia | 15600 | 24600 | 0.3662 | 10,075 | 1035 | 0.7995 | |
| 19 | Duke University | 16000 | 98500 | 0.8377 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 19 | Franklin and Marshall College | 16000 | 115900 | 0.8616 | 1,778 | 1387 | 0.3163 | |
| 19 | Lindsey Wilson University | 16000 | 47500 | 0.6635 | 1,738 | 1035 | 0 | |
| 22 | Dakota Wesleyan University | 16300 | 48200 | 0.6622 | 771 | 1085 | 0.7338 | |
| 23 | University of California-Los Angeles | 16400 | 47400 | 0.6546 | 33,534 | 1399 | 0.0941 | |
| 24 | Albright College | 18000 | 56800 | 0.6836 | 1,210 | 1079 | 0.9408 | |
| 24 | Centre College | 18000 | 73100 | 0.7538 | 1,385 | 1323 | 0.4816 | |
| 26 | Central Washington University | 18500 | 22700 | 0.1848 | 10,033 | 1060 | 0.9061 | |
| 27 | Columbia College | 18600 | 60700 | 0.6931 | 1,566 | 950 | 0.966 | |
| 28 | San Jose State University | 18700 | 41100 | 0.5452 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 29 | Life Pacific University | 19200 | 47100 | 0.5924 | 460 | 1020 | 0.958 | |
| 30 | University of Southern California | 19900 | 76200 | 0.7388 | 20,768 | 1499 | 0.1119 | |
| 31 | East Texas Baptist University | 21400 | 47900 | 0.5534 | 1,663 | 1059 | 0.7306 | |
| 32 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 22400 | 42500 | 0.4729 | 14,249 | 1084 | 0.7761 | |
| 32 | University of North Florida | 22400 | 22400 | 0 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 34 | Concordia University-Nebraska | 22600 | 60400 | 0.6257 | 3,007 | 1135 | 0.8572 | |
| 35 | Point Park University | 23300 | 70900 | 0.6715 | 2,498 | 1144 | 0.984 | |
| 35 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 23300 | 33600 | 0.3063 | 21,469 | 1167 | 0.9061 | |
| 37 | The University of Tennessee Southern | 23500 | 28100 | 0.1633 | 1,012 | 1075 | 0.8671 | |
| 38 | Florida International University | 23700 | 23700 | 0 | 46,249 | 1180 | 0.6085 | |
| 39 | Walsh University | 24200 | 46400 | 0.4787 | 1,523 | 1159 | 0.7074 | |
| 40 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24400 | 31600 | 0.2275 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 41 | University of Kansas | 25300 | 43000 | 0.4113 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 42 | George Fox University | 26400 | 95400 | 0.7235 | 3,530 | 1168 | 0.9282 | |
| 43 | Houston Christian University | 26500 | 60500 | 0.5623 | 3,277 | 1099 | 0.8645 | |
| 44 | University of Jamestown | 27400 | 34400 | 0.2035 | 1,097 | 1055 | 0.88 | |
| 45 | Concordia University-Irvine | 27500 | 94100 | 0.7078 | 1,554 | 1172 | 0.6599 | |
| 46 | Cornell College | 28100 | 74800 | 0.6242 | 1,094 | 1243 | 0.799 | |
| 46 | Wayne State University | 28100 | 46800 | 0.3998 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 48 | Mount Aloysius College | 28200 | 63500 | 0.5561 | 3,135 | 1045 | 0.936 | |
| 49 | Wayland Baptist University | 28800 | 37300 | 0.2281 | 1,894 | 1045 | 0.5477 | |
| 50 | Southern Adventist University | 29700 | 46900 | 0.3666 | 2,946 | 1142 | 0.7163 | |
| 50 | University of California-Santa Barbara | 29700 | 59100 | 0.4972 | 23,091 | 1354 | 0.382 | |
| 52 | University of Iowa | 29800 | 32100 | 0.0714 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 53 | Taylor University | 31100 | 59100 | 0.474 | 2,769 | 1229 | 0.9881 | |
| 54 | Missouri Baptist University | 31500 | 53800 | 0.4142 | 5,253 | 910 | 0.7062 | |
| 55 | Villanova University | 32100 | 114000 | 0.7185 | 6,933 | 1466 | 0.2814 | |
| 56 | Seton Hill University | 33100 | 89200 | 0.6289 | 1,502 | 1134 | 0.7953 | |
| 57 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33300 | 75200 | 0.5573 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 58 | Harding University | 33500 | 47800 | 0.299 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 59 | Elizabethtown College | 33700 | 69900 | 0.5181 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 60 | California Baptist University | 34500 | 69100 | 0.5009 | 8,707 | 1024 | 0.8139 | |
| 60 | University of Vermont | 34500 | 66300 | 0.4799 | 12,159 | 1372 | 0.7304 | |
| 62 | Trevecca Nazarene University | 34600 | 50900 | 0.3202 | 1,961 | 1099 | 0.7512 | |
| 63 | Andrews University | 37200 | 76700 | 0.5148 | 1,384 | 1143 | 0.8185 | |
| 64 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 37400 | 63100 | 0.407 | 5,986 | 1110 | 0.8916 | |
| 65 | Chaminade University of Honolulu | 37500 | 57700 | 0.3502 | 1,732 | 1108 | 0.9117 | |
| 66 | Saint Francis University | 39900 | 81500 | 0.5104 | 2,567 | 1150 | 0.7682 | |
| 67 | Pace University | 40500 | 75500 | 0.4636 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 67 | Saint Mary's College of California | 40500 | 102500 | 0.6051 | 1,955 | 1175 | 0.8856 | |
| 69 | Rochester Christian University | 43100 | 45400 | 0.0504 | 1,162 | 970 | 0.9764 | |
| 70 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 43200 | 108500 | 0.6019 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 71 | Florida Atlantic University | 44900 | 44900 | 0 | 25,626 | 1150 | 0.5497 | |
| 72 | Wagner College | 46900 | 73400 | 0.3611 | 1,666 | 1240 | 0.88 | |
| 73 | The University of Texas at Austin | 49800 | 58800 | 0.153 | 44,314 | 1356 | 0.2222 | |
| 74 | Quinnipiac University | 50200 | 118300 | 0.5755 | 6,610 | 1250 | 0.7031 | |
| 75 | Rowan University | 53600 | 53600 | 0 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 76 | Mount St. Joseph University | 54000 | 69900 | 0.2276 | 1,268 | 1105 | 0.9128 | |
| 77 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 57900 | 65700 | 0.1188 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 78 | George Mason University | 58000 | 61400 | 0.0554 | 28,862 | 1271 | 0.8647 | |
| 79 | Oregon Institute of Technology | 58700 | 67000 | 0.1238 | 5,288 | 1138 | 0.9459 | |
| 80 | University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis | 61200 | 61700 | 0.0081 | 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.