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Considering a degree in Research and Experimental Psychology?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Research and Experimental Psychology majors who live in Iowa.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Research and Experimental Psychology degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Iowa.
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 | Washington and Lee University | 4300 | 87100 | 0.9508 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 2 | Amherst College | 5400 | 95600 | 0.9434 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 3 | Trinity College | 6000 | 91500 | 0.9345 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 4 | University of Pennsylvania | 6100 | 93000 | 0.9346 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 5 | Davidson College | 6200 | 89900 | 0.9313 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 6 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 6600 | 94100 | 0.9301 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 6 | Swarthmore College | 6600 | 88900 | 0.9258 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 8 | Wellesley College | 7000 | 90900 | 0.9233 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 9 | Bates College | 7200 | 91800 | 0.9214 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 10 | Grinnell College | 7400 | 90800 | 0.9186 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 11 | Pitzer College | 7600 | 90700 | 0.9161 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 11 | Smith College | 7600 | 92700 | 0.9176 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 13 | Pomona College | 8500 | 88500 | 0.9039 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 14 | Middlebury College | 8600 | 89800 | 0.9041 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 15 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 88400 | 0.9017 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 16 | Haverford College | 8900 | 97300 | 0.9086 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 17 | St Olaf College | 9400 | 75600 | 0.8754 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 18 | Vassar College | 9600 | 91500 | 0.8949 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 19 | Colgate University | 9900 | 91600 | 0.8915 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 19 | Duke University | 9900 | 93500 | 0.8944 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 21 | University of California-Davis | 10100 | 37800 | 0.732 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 22 | Brigham Young University | 11000 | 29000 | 0.6203 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 23 | Lafayette College | 11800 | 85800 | 0.863 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 24 | Northeastern State University | 11900 | 22900 | 0.4802 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 25 | New York University | 12100 | 91800 | 0.868 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 26 | Bowdoin College | 12700 | 89900 | 0.8589 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 27 | Denison University | 13600 | 69300 | 0.8035 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 27 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 32500 | 0.5829 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 29 | University of North Alabama | 13700 | 28200 | 0.5145 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 30 | Kansas State University | 14100 | 26100 | 0.4588 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 31 | Carleton College | 14200 | 73700 | 0.8067 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 32 | University of California-Merced | 14400 | 40300 | 0.6422 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 33 | Trinity University | 14600 | 64800 | 0.7748 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 34 | Union College | 14700 | 91000 | 0.8385 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 35 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 36 | University of Central Missouri | 14900 | 25400 | 0.4125 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 37 | Murray State University | 15000 | 27000 | 0.4463 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 38 | Macalester College | 15400 | 88200 | 0.8258 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 39 | Albion College | 15700 | 72600 | 0.7836 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 40 | Northeastern University | 16400 | 89900 | 0.8179 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 41 | Barnard College | 17600 | 93200 | 0.8112 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 42 | University of Rochester | 17700 | 93100 | 0.8101 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 43 | Occidental College | 18600 | 87900 | 0.7883 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 44 | Loyola University New Orleans | 19500 | 71100 | 0.726 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 44 | Western Kentucky University | 19500 | 26800 | 0.2717 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 44 | Whitman College | 19500 | 85500 | 0.7719 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 47 | Iowa State University | 20000 | 24200 | 0.1755 | 25,628 | 1207 | 0.8866 | |
| 48 | Lee University | 20100 | 37100 | 0.4577 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 49 | Niagara University | 20900 | 57400 | 0.6356 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 50 | Luther College | 21400 | 71900 | 0.7025 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 50 | Pennsylvania Western University | 21400 | 29400 | 0.2722 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 52 | Cottey College | 22000 | 37300 | 0.4112 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 53 | Canisius University | 22100 | 53200 | 0.5842 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 54 | Lake Forest College | 22200 | 76700 | 0.7102 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 55 | Sterling College | 22400 | 53600 | 0.5819 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 56 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 22500 | 36100 | 0.3765 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 57 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 24100 | 71600 | 0.6636 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 58 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 24200 | 83600 | 0.7108 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 59 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4412 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 60 | Creighton University | 25000 | 56600 | 0.5584 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 61 | University of Kansas | 25800 | 42000 | 0.3859 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 62 | Westminster University | 26200 | 59500 | 0.5593 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 63 | Earlham College | 26400 | 75800 | 0.6521 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 64 | St. Francis College | 26800 | 39400 | 0.3202 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 65 | University of North Georgia | 27000 | 35500 | 0.2393 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 66 | Mount St. Mary's University | 28000 | 61400 | 0.5436 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 67 | College of Coastal Georgia | 28400 | 43200 | 0.3422 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 68 | Regis University | 28800 | 67200 | 0.5711 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 68 | University of Utah | 28800 | 32000 | 0.1002 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 70 | University of Iowa | 28900 | 31100 | 0.0709 | 22,738 | 1208 | 0.8362 | |
| 71 | Knox College | 29000 | 61000 | 0.5248 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 72 | Montclair State University | 29700 | 36300 | 0.1819 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 73 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 74 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 30000 | 30000 | 0 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 75 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 30200 | 52900 | 0.4293 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 76 | Gannon University | 30600 | 45300 | 0.3246 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 77 | Agnes Scott College | 30800 | 69000 | 0.5538 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 77 | The College of Wooster | 30800 | 82600 | 0.627 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 79 | University of North Florida | 31900 | 37900 | 0.1583 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 80 | Southern Nazarene University | 32100 | 48400 | 0.3367 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 81 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54600 | 0.3772 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 82 | Scripps College | 34100 | 94800 | 0.6401 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 83 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 84 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.5761 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 85 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35800 | 47300 | 0.2431 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 86 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 38800 | 52900 | 0.2664 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 87 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 88 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 40600 | 56700 | 0.284 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 89 | Oglethorpe University | 41900 | 68600 | 0.3895 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 90 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42700 | 54900 | 0.2224 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 91 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3675 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 92 | University of California-Riverside | 43700 | 66400 | 0.3418 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 93 | Georgia College & State University | 45200 | 52400 | 0.1374 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 94 | Drexel University | 51100 | 82600 | 0.3812 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 95 | Sacred Heart University | 53100 | 75200 | 0.2939 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 96 | University of California-Irvine | 55100 | 64800 | 0.1496 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 97 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60800 | 63000 | 0.035 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 98 | University of Oregon | 66700 | 68900 | 0.032 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 99 | University of California-Berkeley | 74600 | 75500 | 0.0119 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.