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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 Massachusetts.
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 Massachusetts.
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 | Davidson College | 2800 | 95600 | 0.9704 | 1,860 | 1463 | 0.1262 | |
| 2 | Trinity College | 3100 | 92800 | 0.9662 | 2,112 | 1404 | 0.2953 | |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania | 4200 | 93100 | 0.9553 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 4 | Smith College | 4900 | 93500 | 0.9474 | 2,578 | 1466 | 0.2241 | |
| 5 | Amherst College | 5100 | 95400 | 0.9465 | 1,907 | 1500 | 0.0772 | |
| 6 | Northeastern University | 6400 | 89100 | 0.9286 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 7 | Bowdoin College | 6600 | 96700 | 0.9316 | 1,841 | 1499 | 0.0681 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 6600 | 98000 | 0.9329 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 9 | University of Richmond | 6700 | 92700 | 0.9273 | 3,052 | 1472 | 0.2224 | |
| 10 | Pomona College | 6900 | 93700 | 0.9264 | 1,721 | 1499 | 0.0714 | |
| 11 | Swarthmore College | 7100 | 94600 | 0.9251 | 1,631 | 1513 | 0.0752 | |
| 12 | Lafayette College | 7800 | 91000 | 0.9138 | 2,675 | 1415 | 0.3116 | |
| 13 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22200 | 0.6405 | 34,354 | 1374 | 0.6862 | |
| 14 | Middlebury College | 8700 | 94500 | 0.908 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 15 | Colgate University | 8800 | 95800 | 0.9081 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 16 | Bates College | 8900 | 92900 | 0.9041 | 1,736 | 1412 | 0.1483 | |
| 17 | Grinnell College | 9000 | 93600 | 0.9035 | 1,668 | 1469 | 0.1605 | |
| 17 | Washington and Lee University | 9000 | 96300 | 0.9062 | 1,916 | 1484 | 0.1354 | |
| 19 | Haverford College | 9500 | 101400 | 0.9063 | 1,420 | 1490 | 0.1331 | |
| 20 | Carleton College | 9900 | 74400 | 0.8664 | 1,974 | 1492 | 0.2178 | |
| 21 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38600 | 0.7362 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 21 | University of California-Merced | 10200 | 40600 | 0.7491 | 8,234 | 1070 | 0.9704 | |
| 21 | Western Kentucky University | 10200 | 27500 | 0.6299 | 13,732 | 1090 | 0.9145 | |
| 24 | Cornell University | 10500 | 93700 | 0.8878 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 25 | University of Rochester | 10600 | 96300 | 0.8903 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 26 | St Olaf College | 10800 | 79500 | 0.8641 | 3,114 | 1374 | 0.4338 | |
| 27 | Wellesley College | 11300 | 90400 | 0.8754 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 28 | Vassar College | 11700 | 93100 | 0.8744 | 2,514 | 1488 | 0.2093 | |
| 29 | Pitzer College | 11900 | 94400 | 0.8742 | 1,193 | 1279 | 0.2685 | |
| 30 | Colorado College | 12000 | 98000 | 0.8772 | 1,887 | 1357 | 0.2209 | |
| 31 | Albion College | 12400 | 109600 | 0.8868 | 1,168 | 1065 | 0.7437 | |
| 32 | Hamilton College | 12800 | 98000 | 0.8694 | 1,980 | 1484 | 0.1359 | |
| 33 | University of North Florida | 12900 | 22400 | 0.4246 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13000 | 21300 | 0.3895 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 35 | Northeastern State University | 13200 | 28600 | 0.5393 | 5,145 | 1035 | 0.9974 | |
| 36 | Denison University | 13400 | 69300 | 0.8073 | 2,458 | 1366 | 0.1955 | |
| 37 | Trinity University | 13500 | 67000 | 0.7982 | 2,423 | 1408 | 0.2488 | |
| 38 | University of California-Riverside | 14600 | 66000 | 0.7792 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 38 | University of North Alabama | 14600 | 37300 | 0.6087 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 40 | Stanford University | 14700 | 1932000 | 0.9924 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 40 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 14700 | 57100 | 0.7421 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 42 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 14900 | 26300 | 0.4331 | 4,056 | 1090 | 0.4151 | |
| 43 | Macalester College | 15200 | 94800 | 0.8393 | 2,068 | 1415 | 0.2813 | |
| 44 | Duke University | 15800 | 98600 | 0.8396 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 44 | Kansas State University | 15800 | 26400 | 0.4005 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 46 | Niagara University | 15900 | 57400 | 0.7227 | 2,638 | 1170 | 0.876 | |
| 47 | University of Massachusetts-Boston | 16100 | 89500 | 0.8198 | 12,138 | 1189 | 0.8379 | |
| 48 | Union College | 16500 | 93300 | 0.8231 | 1,954 | 1399 | 0.4342 | |
| 49 | Whitman College | 16700 | 85800 | 0.8054 | 1,468 | 1397 | 0.4016 | |
| 50 | Barnard College | 17500 | 99700 | 0.8241 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 51 | Occidental College | 18100 | 96300 | 0.8117 | 1,822 | 1440 | 0.4485 | |
| 52 | Georgia College & State University | 18300 | 18300 | 0 | 6,250 | 1165 | 0.8466 | |
| 53 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 54 | Cottey College | 20100 | 37300 | 0.462 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 55 | College of Coastal Georgia | 20700 | 51600 | 0.5987 | 3,609 | 1005 | 0.9885 | |
| 56 | Luther College | 21300 | 75400 | 0.7183 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 57 | Stetson University | 21700 | 81100 | 0.7327 | 2,414 | 1089 | 0.7167 | |
| 57 | University of Kansas | 21700 | 44400 | 0.5109 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 59 | Sterling College | 22200 | 77400 | 0.7139 | 649 | 1103 | 0.8759 | |
| 60 | Pennsylvania Western University | 22800 | 34400 | 0.3369 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 61 | Wilson College | 24600 | 44400 | 0.4452 | 1,379 | 1055 | 0.9211 | |
| 62 | Lake Forest College | 24800 | 76000 | 0.6733 | 1,786 | 1304 | 0.5363 | |
| 63 | Earlham College | 26100 | 75800 | 0.6554 | 670 | 1237 | 0.7904 | |
| 64 | St. Francis College | 26900 | 39400 | 0.3177 | 1,719 | 1035 | 1 | |
| 65 | Murray State University | 27300 | 32400 | 0.1565 | 8,217 | 1124 | 0.8413 | |
| 66 | Creighton University | 27700 | 67900 | 0.5918 | 4,833 | 1328 | 0.9216 | |
| 66 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27700 | 61400 | 0.5496 | 1,804 | 1159 | 0.7258 | |
| 68 | Knox College | 28100 | 68800 | 0.5913 | 1,108 | 1274 | 0.772 | |
| 69 | New York University | 29000 | 92100 | 0.6851 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 70 | Canisius University | 30000 | 54700 | 0.4518 | 1,728 | 1186 | 0.7323 | |
| 71 | Scripps College | 30100 | 97800 | 0.6921 | 1,103 | 1472 | 0.3988 | |
| 72 | University of Toledo | 30400 | 42000 | 0.2756 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 73 | The College of Wooster | 30600 | 82600 | 0.6301 | 1,515 | 1345 | 0.6438 | |
| 74 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31100 | 50300 | 0.3816 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 75 | Southern Nazarene University | 31800 | 48400 | 0.3442 | 1,473 | 1055 | 1 | |
| 75 | Westminster University | 31800 | 94100 | 0.6623 | 868 | 1205 | 0.6513 | |
| 77 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 31900 | 35200 | 0.0938 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 78 | University of Oregon | 32900 | 40200 | 0.1826 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 79 | University of Central Missouri | 33300 | 35800 | 0.0716 | 10,397 | 1055 | 0.7439 | |
| 80 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33400 | 75200 | 0.556 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 81 | Pace University | 33800 | 75700 | 0.5538 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 82 | Berry College | 34400 | 62400 | 0.4488 | 2,262 | 1219 | 0.7315 | |
| 83 | University of Nevada-Reno | 34700 | 45800 | 0.2425 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 84 | New York Institute of Technology | 35100 | 83600 | 0.5799 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 85 | Agnes Scott College | 36300 | 71200 | 0.49 | 731 | 1219 | 0.6353 | |
| 86 | Loyola University New Orleans | 36900 | 74600 | 0.5052 | 2,871 | 1150 | 0.9058 | |
| 87 | Baldwin Wallace University | 38900 | 69800 | 0.4429 | 2,532 | 1210 | 0.7739 | |
| 88 | University of Charleston | 39200 | 51200 | 0.2342 | 2,348 | 1075 | 0.5975 | |
| 89 | Drexel University | 39500 | 86400 | 0.5431 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 90 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 41200 | 55300 | 0.2552 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 91 | Oglethorpe University | 41500 | 68600 | 0.3948 | 1,338 | 1205 | 0.898 | |
| 92 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43200 | 68700 | 0.3719 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 93 | Texas Christian University | 44300 | 87400 | 0.4934 | 11,152 | 1268 | 0.4809 | |
| 94 | LeTourneau University | 44600 | 57300 | 0.2215 | 2,903 | 1242 | 0.4879 | |
| 95 | University of Delaware | 47500 | 62400 | 0.2385 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 96 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 49300 | 67600 | 0.2708 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 97 | Sacred Heart University | 49600 | 67500 | 0.2652 | 7,291 | 1265 | 0.6363 | |
| 98 | University of North Georgia | 50000 | 57000 | 0.1228 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 99 | Woodbury University | 50600 | 69500 | 0.2719 | 725 | 1087 | 0.7143 | |
| 100 | University of Utah | 51100 | 53700 | 0.0478 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 101 | University of California-Berkeley | 51600 | 76600 | 0.3263 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 102 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 53400 | 96100 | 0.4442 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 103 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 54900 | 68800 | 0.2022 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 104 | University of California-Irvine | 72000 | 75000 | 0.04 | 30,260 | 1333 | 0.2895 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.