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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 Virginia.
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 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 | |
| 2 | Davidson College | 2400 | 95200 | 0.9745 | 1,860 | 1463 | 0.1262 | |
| 3 | Washington and Lee University | 4100 | 95500 | 0.9571 | 1,916 | 1484 | 0.1354 | |
| 4 | University of Pennsylvania | 4600 | 93100 | 0.951 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 5 | Trinity College | 5100 | 92800 | 0.9446 | 2,112 | 1404 | 0.2953 | |
| 6 | Amherst College | 5600 | 123100 | 0.9542 | 1,907 | 1500 | 0.0772 | |
| 7 | Bowdoin College | 6900 | 94700 | 0.9271 | 1,841 | 1499 | 0.0681 | |
| 7 | Pomona College | 6900 | 93700 | 0.9264 | 1,721 | 1499 | 0.0714 | |
| 9 | Smith College | 7200 | 119400 | 0.94 | 2,578 | 1466 | 0.2241 | |
| 9 | Swarthmore College | 7200 | 117900 | 0.9393 | 1,631 | 1513 | 0.0752 | |
| 11 | Lafayette College | 7700 | 112400 | 0.9316 | 2,675 | 1415 | 0.3116 | |
| 12 | Brigham Young University | 8100 | 22100 | 0.6333 | 34,354 | 1374 | 0.6862 | |
| 13 | Haverford College | 8800 | 125000 | 0.9297 | 1,420 | 1490 | 0.1331 | |
| 14 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 96500 | 0.9082 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 14 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 8900 | 38900 | 0.7716 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 16 | Bates College | 9000 | 92900 | 0.903 | 1,736 | 1412 | 0.1483 | |
| 17 | Colgate University | 9200 | 95800 | 0.9039 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 17 | Grinnell College | 9200 | 93600 | 0.9014 | 1,668 | 1469 | 0.1605 | |
| 19 | University of California-Berkeley | 10300 | 57300 | 0.8197 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 20 | University of California-Merced | 10400 | 46200 | 0.7756 | 8,234 | 1070 | 0.9704 | |
| 20 | Wellesley College | 10400 | 117800 | 0.9117 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 22 | University of Rochester | 10600 | 96300 | 0.8904 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 23 | St Olaf College | 10800 | 79500 | 0.8641 | 3,114 | 1374 | 0.4338 | |
| 24 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11100 | 30900 | 0.6402 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 25 | Middlebury College | 11200 | 94500 | 0.8815 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 26 | Vassar College | 12100 | 92200 | 0.8692 | 2,514 | 1488 | 0.2093 | |
| 27 | Pitzer College | 12200 | 93200 | 0.869 | 1,193 | 1279 | 0.2685 | |
| 28 | Albion College | 12600 | 109600 | 0.8849 | 1,168 | 1065 | 0.7437 | |
| 28 | University of North Florida | 12600 | 22400 | 0.438 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 30 | Carleton College | 12700 | 74400 | 0.8298 | 1,974 | 1492 | 0.2178 | |
| 31 | Hamilton College | 12800 | 98000 | 0.8694 | 1,980 | 1484 | 0.1359 | |
| 32 | University of Richmond | 12900 | 88600 | 0.8546 | 3,052 | 1472 | 0.2224 | |
| 33 | Cornell University | 13100 | 93700 | 0.8601 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 34 | Northeastern State University | 13300 | 28900 | 0.5403 | 5,145 | 1035 | 0.9974 | |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 36 | Denison University | 13500 | 69300 | 0.8051 | 2,458 | 1366 | 0.1955 | |
| 36 | Trinity University | 13500 | 67000 | 0.7982 | 2,423 | 1408 | 0.2488 | |
| 36 | University of California-Riverside | 13500 | 118100 | 0.8854 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 36 | University of Delaware | 13500 | 34500 | 0.608 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 40 | Colorado College | 14100 | 98000 | 0.8563 | 1,887 | 1357 | 0.2209 | |
| 41 | University of North Georgia | 14300 | 56800 | 0.7485 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 42 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 15000 | 26300 | 0.4293 | 4,056 | 1090 | 0.4151 | |
| 43 | Stanford University | 15200 | 1865100 | 0.9919 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 44 | Macalester College | 15400 | 115000 | 0.8664 | 2,068 | 1415 | 0.2813 | |
| 45 | Duke University | 16000 | 98500 | 0.8377 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 45 | University of Kansas | 16000 | 34900 | 0.5417 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 47 | Barnard College | 17500 | 99700 | 0.8241 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 48 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 43800 | 0.5908 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 48 | Northeastern University | 17900 | 90000 | 0.8011 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 50 | Union College | 18000 | 93400 | 0.8076 | 1,954 | 1399 | 0.4342 | |
| 51 | Georgia College & State University | 18300 | 18300 | 0 | 6,250 | 1165 | 0.8466 | |
| 52 | Occidental College | 18400 | 114500 | 0.8393 | 1,822 | 1440 | 0.4485 | |
| 53 | Whitman College | 18600 | 85800 | 0.7828 | 1,468 | 1397 | 0.4016 | |
| 54 | Luther College | 21500 | 75400 | 0.7153 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 55 | Stetson University | 21800 | 81100 | 0.7315 | 2,414 | 1089 | 0.7167 | |
| 56 | Sterling College | 22200 | 77400 | 0.7129 | 649 | 1103 | 0.8759 | |
| 57 | Cottey College | 22300 | 37300 | 0.4026 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 58 | Murray State University | 22800 | 27600 | 0.1738 | 8,217 | 1124 | 0.8413 | |
| 59 | Pennsylvania Western University | 22900 | 34400 | 0.334 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 60 | Loyola University New Orleans | 23100 | 74600 | 0.6901 | 2,871 | 1150 | 0.9058 | |
| 61 | University of North Alabama | 23200 | 37300 | 0.3781 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 62 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 23300 | 33600 | 0.3063 | 21,469 | 1167 | 0.9061 | |
| 63 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 24200 | 42000 | 0.4243 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 64 | Lake Forest College | 24800 | 76000 | 0.6733 | 1,786 | 1304 | 0.5363 | |
| 64 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4421 | 1,379 | 1055 | 0.9211 | |
| 66 | Earlham College | 26300 | 75800 | 0.6528 | 670 | 1237 | 0.7904 | |
| 66 | Western Kentucky University | 26300 | 47700 | 0.4485 | 13,732 | 1090 | 0.9145 | |
| 68 | College of Coastal Georgia | 26800 | 36000 | 0.2556 | 3,609 | 1005 | 0.9885 | |
| 69 | St. Francis College | 26900 | 39400 | 0.3177 | 1,719 | 1035 | 1 | |
| 70 | Creighton University | 27700 | 67900 | 0.5916 | 4,833 | 1328 | 0.9216 | |
| 71 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27800 | 61400 | 0.5468 | 1,804 | 1159 | 0.7258 | |
| 72 | Niagara University | 28400 | 57400 | 0.505 | 2,638 | 1170 | 0.876 | |
| 73 | Knox College | 28600 | 68800 | 0.5843 | 1,108 | 1274 | 0.772 | |
| 74 | New York University | 29000 | 92100 | 0.6851 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 75 | University of Toledo | 29300 | 32600 | 0.1009 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 76 | Canisius University | 29400 | 54500 | 0.4604 | 1,728 | 1186 | 0.7323 | |
| 77 | Scripps College | 30300 | 107900 | 0.7189 | 1,103 | 1472 | 0.3988 | |
| 78 | The College of Wooster | 30700 | 82400 | 0.6271 | 1,515 | 1345 | 0.6438 | |
| 79 | Westminster University | 31800 | 62600 | 0.4922 | 868 | 1205 | 0.6513 | |
| 80 | Southern Nazarene University | 32000 | 48400 | 0.3385 | 1,473 | 1055 | 1 | |
| 81 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32300 | 35100 | 0.0799 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 82 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33300 | 75200 | 0.5573 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 83 | University of Central Missouri | 33500 | 35800 | 0.0639 | 10,397 | 1055 | 0.7439 | |
| 84 | Berry College | 34300 | 61400 | 0.4411 | 2,262 | 1219 | 0.7315 | |
| 85 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.577 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 86 | George Mason University | 35700 | 35800 | 0.0011 | 28,862 | 1271 | 0.8647 | |
| 87 | Agnes Scott College | 36300 | 71200 | 0.49 | 731 | 1219 | 0.6353 | |
| 88 | University of Nevada-Reno | 37300 | 44800 | 0.1674 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 89 | Baldwin Wallace University | 39000 | 66100 | 0.4102 | 2,532 | 1210 | 0.7739 | |
| 90 | University of Charleston | 39200 | 51200 | 0.2342 | 2,348 | 1075 | 0.5975 | |
| 91 | Drexel University | 39600 | 107600 | 0.6318 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 92 | Pace University | 40500 | 75500 | 0.4636 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 93 | Oglethorpe University | 41800 | 68600 | 0.3908 | 1,338 | 1205 | 0.898 | |
| 94 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68700 | 0.3679 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 95 | Kansas State University | 43600 | 47900 | 0.0887 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 96 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 43700 | 60500 | 0.2778 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 97 | Texas Christian University | 44300 | 87400 | 0.4934 | 11,152 | 1268 | 0.4809 | |
| 98 | LeTourneau University | 44600 | 55000 | 0.1891 | 2,903 | 1242 | 0.4879 | |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University | 49700 | 67500 | 0.2637 | 7,291 | 1265 | 0.6363 | |
| 100 | University of Utah | 51400 | 53700 | 0.0426 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 101 | Woodbury University | 53900 | 88400 | 0.3901 | 725 | 1087 | 0.7143 | |
| 102 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 54100 | 95100 | 0.4311 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 103 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60700 | 63000 | 0.0364 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 104 | University of California-Davis | 68400 | 90000 | 0.2399 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 105 | University of Oregon | 69000 | 71300 | 0.0321 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 106 | University of California-Irvine | 72000 | 85400 | 0.1569 | 30,260 | 1333 | 0.2895 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.