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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 California.
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 California.
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 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | 5100 | 53000 | 0.9035 | 2,525 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | Antelope Valley Community College District | 6200 | 12900 | 0.5189 | 12,937 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Santa Monica College | 7000 | 15500 | 0.5492 | 23,164 | 0 | 0.4384 | |
| 4 | Washington and Lee University | 7200 | 87100 | 0.9175 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 5 | Amherst College | 8500 | 95600 | 0.911 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 6 | Bowdoin College | 8600 | 89900 | 0.9046 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 94100 | 0.9057 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 7 | Stanford University | 8900 | 71500 | 0.875 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania | 9000 | 93000 | 0.9034 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 10 | Smith College | 9200 | 92700 | 0.9003 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 11 | Grinnell College | 9600 | 91400 | 0.8951 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 12 | Davidson College | 10100 | 89900 | 0.8872 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 13 | Haverford College | 10200 | 97300 | 0.8952 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 13 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38000 | 0.7304 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 15 | Pomona College | 10400 | 88500 | 0.8824 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 16 | Trinity College | 11000 | 91500 | 0.8798 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 17 | Wellesley College | 11100 | 90900 | 0.8782 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 18 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 11500 | 34300 | 0.6643 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 19 | Hamilton College | 11600 | 88400 | 0.8689 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 20 | Colgate University | 11700 | 91600 | 0.8718 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 21 | Northeastern State University | 11800 | 22900 | 0.4846 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 22 | Bates College | 12300 | 91800 | 0.8659 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 23 | Lafayette College | 12400 | 85800 | 0.856 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 23 | Vassar College | 12400 | 91500 | 0.8643 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 25 | Middlebury College | 12800 | 89800 | 0.8573 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 26 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 27 | University of California-Merced | 13600 | 40400 | 0.6628 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 28 | St Olaf College | 13800 | 75600 | 0.8173 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 29 | Duke University | 13900 | 93500 | 0.8516 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 30 | Swarthmore College | 14000 | 88900 | 0.8425 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 31 | Northeastern University | 14500 | 89900 | 0.8391 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 32 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 14600 | 22700 | 0.3563 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 33 | Pitzer College | 14700 | 89800 | 0.8358 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 34 | Albion College | 15100 | 72600 | 0.7919 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 35 | University of California-Berkeley | 15600 | 43600 | 0.6424 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 36 | Santa Ana College | 15900 | 41800 | 0.6191 | 26,073 | 0 | 0 | |
| 37 | Trinity University | 16000 | 64800 | 0.7532 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 38 | University of California-Riverside | 16300 | 36500 | 0.5533 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 39 | University of Kansas | 17300 | 34900 | 0.5043 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 40 | Denison University | 17600 | 69300 | 0.7463 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 40 | Macalester College | 17600 | 88200 | 0.8009 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 42 | Scripps College | 17700 | 93800 | 0.8114 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 43 | Union College | 18600 | 91000 | 0.7957 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 44 | Georgia College & State University | 18800 | 21600 | 0.1295 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 45 | Kansas State University | 19000 | 28800 | 0.3397 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 46 | Barnard College | 19100 | 93200 | 0.7951 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 46 | Brigham Young University | 19100 | 29000 | 0.3411 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 48 | Lee University | 19300 | 37100 | 0.4792 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 49 | Niagara University | 20300 | 57400 | 0.6461 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 50 | Cottey College | 21300 | 37300 | 0.4296 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 51 | Luther College | 21600 | 71900 | 0.699 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 52 | Canisius University | 21700 | 53200 | 0.5917 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 53 | Sterling College | 21900 | 53600 | 0.5912 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 54 | Carleton College | 23100 | 74500 | 0.6899 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 55 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 23400 | 71600 | 0.6734 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 56 | New York University | 23900 | 91800 | 0.7395 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 57 | Wilson College | 24400 | 43300 | 0.4363 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 58 | Whitman College | 24500 | 84800 | 0.7114 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 59 | University of Rochester | 24900 | 93100 | 0.7328 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 60 | Occidental College | 25500 | 87400 | 0.7083 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 61 | Westminster University | 25700 | 59500 | 0.5677 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 62 | Loyola University New Orleans | 25900 | 71100 | 0.636 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 63 | Lake Forest College | 26000 | 76700 | 0.6607 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 64 | Pennsylvania Western University | 26200 | 35600 | 0.2643 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 65 | Earlham College | 26600 | 75800 | 0.6491 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 65 | St. Francis College | 26600 | 39400 | 0.3253 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 65 | University of North Alabama | 26600 | 41500 | 0.3592 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 68 | University of North Georgia | 26800 | 35500 | 0.245 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 69 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 27200 | 83600 | 0.6749 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 70 | Agnes Scott College | 27300 | 69000 | 0.6045 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 70 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27300 | 61400 | 0.5552 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 72 | Creighton University | 27600 | 56600 | 0.5124 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 73 | College of Coastal Georgia | 28000 | 43200 | 0.3515 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 73 | Murray State University | 28000 | 32400 | 0.1355 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 75 | University of Central Missouri | 28300 | 33200 | 0.1473 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 76 | Knox College | 28400 | 61000 | 0.5347 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 77 | Regis University | 28500 | 67200 | 0.5755 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 78 | The College of Wooster | 29300 | 79700 | 0.6322 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 79 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 29900 | 31100 | 0.0385 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 80 | Gannon University | 30000 | 45300 | 0.3378 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 81 | University of North Florida | 31300 | 37900 | 0.1742 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 82 | Baldwin Wallace University | 32100 | 47300 | 0.3213 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 83 | Southern Nazarene University | 32400 | 48400 | 0.3301 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 84 | University of Nevada-Reno | 32500 | 32500 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 85 | LeTourneau University | 34200 | 54600 | 0.3736 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 86 | Western Kentucky University | 36200 | 41900 | 0.1361 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 87 | New York Institute of Technology | 39200 | 78600 | 0.5005 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 88 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 39500 | 52900 | 0.2532 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 89 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 39600 | 56700 | 0.3017 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 90 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 91 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42000 | 54900 | 0.2352 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 92 | Oglethorpe University | 42200 | 68600 | 0.3849 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 93 | Montclair State University | 42300 | 46600 | 0.0922 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 94 | Florida Institute of Technology | 44500 | 66400 | 0.3298 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 95 | University of Delaware | 47200 | 53200 | 0.114 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 96 | Drexel University | 51400 | 82600 | 0.3776 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 97 | University of Utah | 51800 | 53700 | 0.0351 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 98 | University of California-Irvine | 52100 | 64800 | 0.1959 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University | 52800 | 75200 | 0.2979 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 100 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 59200 | 61100 | 0.0309 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 101 | University of Oregon | 59500 | 68900 | 0.1362 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.