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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 Pennsylvania.
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 Pennsylvania.
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 | 4300 | 92800 | 0.954 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 2 | Pomona College | 5600 | 90000 | 0.9375 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 3 | Smith College | 5700 | 96700 | 0.9415 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 4 | Amherst College | 6000 | 96100 | 0.938 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 5 | Davidson College | 6200 | 89900 | 0.9313 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 6 | Haverford College | 6700 | 96500 | 0.9301 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 7 | Bowdoin College | 7200 | 89900 | 0.9201 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 7 | Colgate University | 7200 | 95700 | 0.9243 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania | 7300 | 92700 | 0.9213 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 10 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 28600 | 0.7211 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 11 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 98000 | 0.9146 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 12 | Swarthmore College | 8700 | 92800 | 0.9059 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 13 | Grinnell College | 9300 | 91400 | 0.8984 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 14 | Washington and Lee University | 9400 | 96000 | 0.9024 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 15 | University of California-Irvine | 9600 | 42100 | 0.7714 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 16 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 10600 | 36400 | 0.7094 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 17 | Lake Forest College | 10700 | 76000 | 0.8587 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 17 | Wellesley College | 10700 | 91300 | 0.883 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 19 | Hamilton College | 10900 | 89000 | 0.8771 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 20 | Bates College | 11000 | 91900 | 0.8801 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 20 | Pitzer College | 11000 | 94100 | 0.8833 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 22 | University of California-Merced | 11100 | 39600 | 0.7189 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 23 | Vassar College | 11400 | 92600 | 0.877 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 24 | Duke University | 11500 | 93600 | 0.8774 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 24 | Middlebury College | 11500 | 89900 | 0.8724 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 26 | Lafayette College | 11900 | 84800 | 0.8598 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 27 | Carleton College | 12100 | 74400 | 0.8372 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 28 | St Olaf College | 12600 | 75900 | 0.834 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 29 | University of California-Riverside | 13100 | 36500 | 0.6406 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 30 | University of North Alabama | 13200 | 30800 | 0.5707 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 31 | Denison University | 13600 | 69300 | 0.8035 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 31 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 34500 | 0.6068 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 33 | Northeastern State University | 14000 | 20800 | 0.3264 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 34 | Union College | 14300 | 92400 | 0.8451 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 35 | Trinity University | 14600 | 94400 | 0.845 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 36 | Stanford University | 14700 | 71200 | 0.7934 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 37 | Murray State University | 15000 | 27000 | 0.4463 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 38 | Macalester College | 15300 | 90000 | 0.8296 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 38 | University of North Georgia | 15300 | 48000 | 0.6815 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 40 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 15500 | 22400 | 0.3076 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 41 | Albion College | 15600 | 93700 | 0.8335 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 42 | Northeastern University | 15700 | 89900 | 0.8254 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 42 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 15700 | 42500 | 0.6307 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 44 | University of North Florida | 15900 | 33000 | 0.5186 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 16500 | 45400 | 0.636 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 46 | University of California-Berkeley | 17300 | 43500 | 0.6028 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 47 | Western Kentucky University | 17500 | 27000 | 0.3506 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 48 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 49 | Whitman College | 17800 | 85800 | 0.7921 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 50 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 51 | Lee University | 18700 | 37400 | 0.5003 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 51 | Occidental College | 18700 | 89200 | 0.7907 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 53 | University of Nevada-Reno | 19300 | 27700 | 0.3034 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 54 | College of Coastal Georgia | 19600 | 42100 | 0.5339 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 55 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 19800 | 26500 | 0.2542 | 9,967 | 1080 | 0.9475 | |
| 55 | Niagara University | 19800 | 57400 | 0.6548 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 57 | University of Rochester | 20200 | 93100 | 0.7833 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 58 | Georgia College & State University | 20300 | 52400 | 0.6125 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 59 | Kansas State University | 20600 | 28800 | 0.2836 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 60 | Loyola University New Orleans | 20700 | 72100 | 0.7127 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 61 | Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | 20800 | 33400 | 0.3789 | 8,012 | 1139 | 1 | |
| 61 | Pennsylvania Western University | 20800 | 26700 | 0.2208 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 63 | Luther College | 21400 | 71900 | 0.7025 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 64 | New York University | 21900 | 91800 | 0.7612 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 65 | Cottey College | 22000 | 37300 | 0.4112 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 66 | Gannon University | 22400 | 53000 | 0.578 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 66 | Sterling College | 22400 | 64300 | 0.6516 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 68 | Regis University | 23600 | 67200 | 0.6484 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 69 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4412 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 70 | University of Kansas | 25400 | 44000 | 0.4224 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 71 | Westminster University | 26100 | 81400 | 0.6794 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 72 | St. Francis College | 26300 | 39400 | 0.3329 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 73 | Earlham College | 26400 | 75800 | 0.6521 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 74 | Canisius University | 27800 | 64800 | 0.5714 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 75 | Creighton University | 28000 | 65300 | 0.5709 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 75 | Mount St. Mary's University | 28000 | 61400 | 0.5436 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 77 | Knox College | 28800 | 68800 | 0.5814 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 78 | Montclair State University | 29700 | 36300 | 0.1819 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 79 | The College of Wooster | 30800 | 82400 | 0.626 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 80 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31100 | 49800 | 0.3755 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 81 | Southern Nazarene University | 32100 | 48400 | 0.3367 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 81 | University of Central Missouri | 32100 | 34300 | 0.0643 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 83 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32400 | 35100 | 0.077 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 84 | University of Oregon | 33100 | 38600 | 0.1424 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 85 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54800 | 0.3798 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 86 | Scripps College | 34200 | 94900 | 0.6399 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 87 | Pace University | 34600 | 74800 | 0.5373 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 88 | Agnes Scott College | 35200 | 69200 | 0.4911 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 88 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 35200 | 75200 | 0.532 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 90 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.5761 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 91 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35900 | 66700 | 0.4619 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 92 | Drexel University | 38400 | 83200 | 0.5384 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 93 | Oglethorpe University | 41900 | 68600 | 0.3895 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 94 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42600 | 54700 | 0.2212 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 95 | Sacred Heart University | 42800 | 67500 | 0.3662 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 96 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3675 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 97 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48500 | 92100 | 0.4736 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 98 | University of Utah | 51500 | 53700 | 0.0411 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 99 | University of California-Davis | 69800 | 69800 | 0 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.