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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 | Trinity College | 3200 | 91500 | 0.9651 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 2 | Amherst College | 3500 | 95200 | 0.9635 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 3 | Washington and Lee University | 4000 | 87100 | 0.9542 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 4 | Smith College | 5200 | 91800 | 0.9437 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 5 | University of Pennsylvania | 5400 | 93000 | 0.9421 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 6 | Davidson College | 5900 | 89900 | 0.9347 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 6300 | 94100 | 0.9333 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 7 | Swarthmore College | 6300 | 88900 | 0.9292 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 9 | Bates College | 7100 | 91800 | 0.9225 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 10 | Pitzer College | 7600 | 90700 | 0.9161 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 11 | Middlebury College | 8300 | 89800 | 0.9074 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 12 | Pomona College | 8500 | 88500 | 0.9039 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 13 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 88400 | 0.9017 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 14 | Haverford College | 8900 | 97300 | 0.9086 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 15 | Grinnell College | 9300 | 91400 | 0.8984 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 16 | St Olaf College | 9400 | 75600 | 0.8754 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 17 | Duke University | 9600 | 93500 | 0.8976 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 17 | Vassar College | 9600 | 91500 | 0.8949 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 19 | Colgate University | 9900 | 91600 | 0.8915 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 20 | Northeastern University | 10200 | 88700 | 0.8854 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 21 | Brigham Young University | 10800 | 29000 | 0.6272 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 21 | Carleton College | 10800 | 74400 | 0.8548 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 23 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 11000 | 34300 | 0.6789 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 24 | Wellesley College | 11300 | 90300 | 0.8754 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 25 | Lafayette College | 11800 | 85800 | 0.863 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 25 | New York University | 11800 | 91800 | 0.8712 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 27 | Bowdoin College | 12400 | 89900 | 0.8623 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 28 | Northeastern State University | 13100 | 20800 | 0.3696 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 29 | Denison University | 13300 | 69300 | 0.8079 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 29 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 31 | University of California-Merced | 14100 | 40300 | 0.6496 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 32 | Union College | 14400 | 91000 | 0.8418 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 33 | Trinity University | 14500 | 64800 | 0.7764 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 34 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 35 | Murray State University | 15000 | 27000 | 0.4463 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 35 | University of California-Berkeley | 15000 | 43500 | 0.655 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 37 | Macalester College | 15200 | 88200 | 0.8281 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 38 | University of California-Riverside | 15300 | 36500 | 0.5804 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 39 | Albion College | 15400 | 72600 | 0.7877 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 40 | Whitman College | 16800 | 85800 | 0.8047 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 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 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 28100 | 0.3632 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 44 | Occidental College | 18100 | 87900 | 0.794 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 45 | College of Coastal Georgia | 18500 | 32900 | 0.4383 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 46 | Kansas State University | 19000 | 28800 | 0.3399 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 47 | Loyola University New Orleans | 19500 | 71100 | 0.726 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 48 | Lee University | 19700 | 37100 | 0.4684 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 49 | Niagara University | 20600 | 57400 | 0.6409 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 50 | Luther College | 21400 | 71900 | 0.7025 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 51 | Cottey College | 21600 | 37300 | 0.4201 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 52 | Canisius University | 21900 | 53200 | 0.588 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 52 | Lake Forest College | 21900 | 76700 | 0.7141 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 54 | Sterling College | 22200 | 53600 | 0.5856 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 55 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 22300 | 36100 | 0.382 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 56 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 23700 | 71600 | 0.6692 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 57 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 24000 | 83600 | 0.7132 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 58 | Creighton University | 24800 | 56600 | 0.5619 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 58 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4412 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 60 | University of Massachusetts-Boston | 25400 | 42200 | 0.3981 | 12,234 | 1194 | 0.8296 | |
| 61 | University of Kansas | 25500 | 42000 | 0.3931 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 62 | Westminster University | 26000 | 59500 | 0.5627 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 63 | Earlham College | 26400 | 75800 | 0.6521 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 64 | Pennsylvania Western University | 26500 | 35600 | 0.2559 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 65 | St. Francis College | 26700 | 39400 | 0.3227 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 66 | University of North Alabama | 26800 | 41500 | 0.3544 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 67 | University of North Georgia | 26900 | 35500 | 0.2422 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 68 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27700 | 61400 | 0.5492 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 69 | Knox College | 28700 | 61000 | 0.5297 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 69 | Regis University | 28700 | 67200 | 0.5726 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 71 | University of Utah | 28800 | 32000 | 0.1002 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 72 | Gannon University | 30300 | 45300 | 0.3312 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 73 | Agnes Scott College | 30700 | 69000 | 0.5552 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 74 | The College of Wooster | 30800 | 82600 | 0.627 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 75 | University of North Florida | 31600 | 37900 | 0.1663 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 76 | Southern Nazarene University | 32100 | 48400 | 0.3367 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 76 | University of Central Missouri | 32100 | 34300 | 0.0643 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 78 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54600 | 0.3772 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 79 | Scripps College | 34100 | 94800 | 0.6401 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 80 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 81 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.5761 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 82 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35600 | 47300 | 0.2473 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 83 | Western Kentucky University | 36100 | 41900 | 0.1385 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 84 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 38900 | 52900 | 0.2645 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 85 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 86 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 40100 | 56700 | 0.2928 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 87 | Oglethorpe University | 41900 | 68600 | 0.3895 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 88 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42300 | 54900 | 0.2297 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 89 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3675 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 90 | Georgia College & State University | 45100 | 52400 | 0.1393 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 91 | Montclair State University | 46300 | 46600 | 0.0064 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 92 | University of Delaware | 47200 | 53200 | 0.1127 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 93 | Drexel University | 51100 | 82600 | 0.3812 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 94 | Sacred Heart University | 53000 | 75200 | 0.2953 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 95 | University of California-Irvine | 54900 | 64800 | 0.1527 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 96 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60800 | 63000 | 0.035 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 97 | University of California-Davis | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 98 | University of Oregon | 66700 | 68900 | 0.032 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.