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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 Iowa.
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 Iowa.
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 | Haverford College | 700 | 125000 | 0.9945 | 1,420 | 1490 | 0.1331 | |
| 2 | Davidson College | 2800 | 95600 | 0.9704 | 1,860 | 1463 | 0.1262 | |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania | 4700 | 93100 | 0.95 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 4 | Amherst College | 5800 | 123100 | 0.9526 | 1,907 | 1500 | 0.0772 | |
| 5 | Trinity College | 6600 | 92800 | 0.9285 | 2,112 | 1404 | 0.2953 | |
| 6 | Bowdoin College | 6900 | 94700 | 0.9271 | 1,841 | 1499 | 0.0681 | |
| 6 | Pomona College | 6900 | 93700 | 0.9264 | 1,721 | 1499 | 0.0714 | |
| 8 | Smith College | 7200 | 119400 | 0.94 | 2,578 | 1466 | 0.2241 | |
| 9 | Grinnell College | 7300 | 91000 | 0.9193 | 1,668 | 1469 | 0.1605 | |
| 10 | Swarthmore College | 7400 | 117900 | 0.9376 | 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 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 96500 | 0.9082 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 14 | Bates College | 9100 | 92900 | 0.902 | 1,736 | 1412 | 0.1483 | |
| 15 | Colgate University | 9500 | 95800 | 0.9008 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 16 | Washington and Lee University | 10300 | 95500 | 0.8921 | 1,916 | 1484 | 0.1354 | |
| 17 | University of California-Merced | 10400 | 46200 | 0.7756 | 8,234 | 1070 | 0.9704 | |
| 17 | Western Kentucky University | 10400 | 30200 | 0.6557 | 13,732 | 1090 | 0.9145 | |
| 19 | University of Rochester | 10600 | 96300 | 0.8904 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 19 | Wellesley College | 10600 | 117800 | 0.91 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 21 | St Olaf College | 10800 | 79500 | 0.8641 | 3,114 | 1374 | 0.4338 | |
| 22 | Middlebury College | 11400 | 94500 | 0.8794 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 23 | University of Richmond | 11600 | 92500 | 0.8746 | 3,052 | 1472 | 0.2224 | |
| 24 | Pitzer College | 12300 | 93200 | 0.868 | 1,193 | 1279 | 0.2685 | |
| 25 | Vassar College | 12400 | 92200 | 0.8659 | 2,514 | 1488 | 0.2093 | |
| 26 | Albion College | 12700 | 109600 | 0.884 | 1,168 | 1065 | 0.7437 | |
| 27 | Hamilton College | 12900 | 98000 | 0.8684 | 1,980 | 1484 | 0.1359 | |
| 28 | Cornell University | 13100 | 93700 | 0.8601 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 29 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 30 | Northeastern State University | 13500 | 28900 | 0.5334 | 5,145 | 1035 | 0.9974 | |
| 30 | Trinity University | 13500 | 67000 | 0.7982 | 2,423 | 1408 | 0.2488 | |
| 32 | University of California-Riverside | 13600 | 118100 | 0.8845 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 33 | Denison University | 13700 | 69300 | 0.8029 | 2,458 | 1366 | 0.1955 | |
| 34 | University of North Georgia | 14400 | 56800 | 0.7467 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 35 | Carleton College | 14600 | 73700 | 0.802 | 1,974 | 1492 | 0.2178 | |
| 36 | Murray State University | 14900 | 27000 | 0.4495 | 8,217 | 1124 | 0.8413 | |
| 37 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 15100 | 26300 | 0.4255 | 4,056 | 1090 | 0.4151 | |
| 38 | Stanford University | 15400 | 1865100 | 0.9917 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 39 | Macalester College | 15500 | 115000 | 0.8655 | 2,068 | 1415 | 0.2813 | |
| 40 | Colorado College | 15700 | 98000 | 0.8397 | 1,887 | 1357 | 0.2209 | |
| 41 | Duke University | 16000 | 98500 | 0.8377 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 42 | Barnard College | 17500 | 99700 | 0.8241 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 43 | Northeastern University | 18000 | 90000 | 0.8 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 44 | Georgia College & State University | 18300 | 18300 | 0 | 6,250 | 1165 | 0.8466 | |
| 44 | Union College | 18300 | 93400 | 0.8044 | 1,954 | 1399 | 0.4342 | |
| 46 | Occidental College | 18700 | 114500 | 0.8367 | 1,822 | 1440 | 0.4485 | |
| 47 | Pennsylvania Western University | 19800 | 30900 | 0.3594 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 48 | Iowa State University | 19900 | 24200 | 0.179 | 26,346 | 1212 | 0.8793 | |
| 49 | Whitman College | 20200 | 85500 | 0.7641 | 1,468 | 1397 | 0.4016 | |
| 50 | Luther College | 21500 | 75400 | 0.7153 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 51 | Stetson University | 21800 | 81100 | 0.7315 | 2,414 | 1089 | 0.7167 | |
| 52 | Sterling College | 22200 | 77400 | 0.7129 | 649 | 1103 | 0.8759 | |
| 53 | Cottey College | 22500 | 37300 | 0.3983 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 54 | Loyola University New Orleans | 23100 | 74600 | 0.6901 | 2,871 | 1150 | 0.9058 | |
| 55 | University of North Alabama | 23300 | 37300 | 0.3754 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 56 | University of Central Missouri | 24300 | 35800 | 0.3225 | 10,397 | 1055 | 0.7439 | |
| 57 | Lake Forest College | 24800 | 76000 | 0.6733 | 1,786 | 1304 | 0.5363 | |
| 57 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4421 | 1,379 | 1055 | 0.9211 | |
| 59 | University of Kansas | 25500 | 43000 | 0.4066 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 60 | Earlham College | 26300 | 75800 | 0.6528 | 670 | 1237 | 0.7904 | |
| 61 | College of Coastal Georgia | 26800 | 36000 | 0.2556 | 3,609 | 1005 | 0.9885 | |
| 61 | St. Francis College | 26800 | 39400 | 0.3202 | 1,719 | 1035 | 1 | |
| 63 | Creighton University | 27700 | 67900 | 0.5916 | 4,833 | 1328 | 0.9216 | |
| 64 | Mount St. Mary's University | 28000 | 61400 | 0.544 | 1,804 | 1159 | 0.7258 | |
| 65 | Niagara University | 28400 | 57400 | 0.505 | 2,638 | 1170 | 0.876 | |
| 66 | Knox College | 28600 | 68800 | 0.5843 | 1,108 | 1274 | 0.772 | |
| 67 | University of Utah | 28700 | 32000 | 0.1028 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 68 | New York University | 29000 | 92100 | 0.6851 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 69 | Canisius University | 29400 | 54500 | 0.4604 | 1,728 | 1186 | 0.7323 | |
| 70 | Scripps College | 30300 | 107900 | 0.7189 | 1,103 | 1472 | 0.3988 | |
| 71 | University of North Florida | 30500 | 30500 | 0 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 72 | The College of Wooster | 30700 | 82600 | 0.628 | 1,515 | 1345 | 0.6438 | |
| 72 | University of Toledo | 30700 | 42000 | 0.269 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 74 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31200 | 48800 | 0.361 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 75 | Westminster University | 31700 | 62600 | 0.4938 | 868 | 1205 | 0.6513 | |
| 76 | Southern Nazarene University | 32000 | 48400 | 0.3385 | 1,473 | 1055 | 1 | |
| 77 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32300 | 35100 | 0.0799 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 78 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33200 | 75200 | 0.5587 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 79 | Berry College | 34300 | 61400 | 0.4411 | 2,262 | 1219 | 0.7315 | |
| 80 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.577 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 81 | Agnes Scott College | 36300 | 71200 | 0.49 | 731 | 1219 | 0.6353 | |
| 82 | University of Nevada-Reno | 37300 | 44800 | 0.1674 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 83 | Baldwin Wallace University | 39100 | 66100 | 0.4086 | 2,532 | 1210 | 0.7739 | |
| 84 | University of Charleston | 39200 | 51200 | 0.2342 | 2,348 | 1075 | 0.5975 | |
| 85 | Drexel University | 39700 | 107600 | 0.6308 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 86 | Pace University | 40600 | 75500 | 0.4623 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 87 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 41600 | 58900 | 0.2937 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 88 | Oglethorpe University | 41800 | 68600 | 0.3908 | 1,338 | 1205 | 0.898 | |
| 89 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68700 | 0.3679 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 90 | Kansas State University | 43700 | 47900 | 0.0884 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 90 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 43700 | 60500 | 0.2778 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 92 | Texas Christian University | 44200 | 87400 | 0.4945 | 11,152 | 1268 | 0.4809 | |
| 93 | LeTourneau University | 44600 | 55000 | 0.1891 | 2,903 | 1242 | 0.4879 | |
| 94 | Woodbury University | 45100 | 88400 | 0.4896 | 725 | 1087 | 0.7143 | |
| 95 | University of Delaware | 47800 | 62000 | 0.2293 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 96 | Sacred Heart University | 49800 | 67500 | 0.2622 | 7,291 | 1265 | 0.6363 | |
| 97 | University of California-Berkeley | 51800 | 98700 | 0.4751 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 98 | University of Iowa | 52100 | 54400 | 0.0421 | 23,407 | 1203 | 0.799 | |
| 99 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 54100 | 95100 | 0.4311 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 100 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 54500 | 66200 | 0.1767 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 101 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 57900 | 65700 | 0.1188 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 102 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60700 | 63000 | 0.0364 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 103 | University of California-Davis | 68300 | 90000 | 0.241 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 104 | University of Oregon | 69000 | 71300 | 0.0321 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 105 | 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.