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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 | Northeastern University Professional Programs | 5500 | 52300 | 0.8945 | 2,525 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | Amherst College | 6600 | 95200 | 0.9309 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 3 | Trinity College | 7000 | 91500 | 0.9236 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 4 | Smith College | 7400 | 91800 | 0.9197 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 5 | Washington and Lee University | 7500 | 87100 | 0.914 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 6 | Pitzer College | 7600 | 90700 | 0.9161 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 7 | Pomona College | 8600 | 88500 | 0.9028 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 8 | Hamilton College | 8700 | 88400 | 0.9017 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 9 | Haverford College | 9100 | 97300 | 0.9065 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 10 | Grinnell College | 9400 | 91400 | 0.8973 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 10 | St Olaf College | 9400 | 75600 | 0.8754 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 12 | Vassar College | 9600 | 91500 | 0.8949 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 13 | Davidson College | 9800 | 89900 | 0.891 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 14 | Colgate University | 10000 | 91600 | 0.8904 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 15 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 10200 | 94100 | 0.8919 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 16 | Bates College | 10300 | 91800 | 0.8877 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 16 | Swarthmore College | 10300 | 88900 | 0.8842 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 18 | University of Pennsylvania | 11300 | 93000 | 0.8787 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 18 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 11300 | 27200 | 0.5853 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 20 | Northeastern State University | 11800 | 22900 | 0.4846 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 21 | Lafayette College | 12000 | 85800 | 0.8606 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 22 | Middlebury College | 12400 | 89800 | 0.8618 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 23 | Brigham Young University | 12500 | 29000 | 0.5686 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 24 | Northeastern University | 13400 | 88700 | 0.8494 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 25 | Duke University | 13500 | 93500 | 0.8559 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 26 | University of Delaware | 13600 | 32500 | 0.5809 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 27 | Bowdoin College | 13900 | 89900 | 0.8456 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 28 | Carleton College | 14600 | 74400 | 0.8036 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 29 | Stanford University | 14800 | 71300 | 0.792 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 30 | University of California-Berkeley | 15000 | 43500 | 0.655 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 | |
| 31 | Wellesley College | 15200 | 90300 | 0.8321 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 32 | Albion College | 15400 | 72600 | 0.7877 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 33 | New York University | 15800 | 91800 | 0.8277 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 33 | Trinity University | 15800 | 64800 | 0.7563 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 35 | Denison University | 17200 | 69300 | 0.7512 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 36 | Barnard College | 17600 | 93200 | 0.8112 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 37 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 28100 | 0.3632 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 37 | Macalester College | 17900 | 88200 | 0.7974 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 39 | Union College | 18300 | 91000 | 0.799 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 40 | Georgia College & State University | 18700 | 21600 | 0.1341 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 41 | Kansas State University | 19000 | 28800 | 0.3402 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 42 | Loyola University New Orleans | 19500 | 71100 | 0.726 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 43 | Lee University | 19700 | 37100 | 0.4684 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 44 | Whitman College | 20500 | 85800 | 0.761 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 45 | Niagara University | 20600 | 57400 | 0.6409 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 46 | University of California-Irvine | 21000 | 35300 | 0.4056 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 47 | Luther College | 21500 | 71900 | 0.7011 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 48 | Cottey College | 21600 | 37300 | 0.4203 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 49 | Canisius University | 21900 | 53200 | 0.588 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 50 | Sterling College | 22200 | 53600 | 0.5856 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 51 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 22300 | 36100 | 0.382 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 52 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 23700 | 71600 | 0.6692 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 53 | University of Rochester | 23800 | 93100 | 0.7446 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 54 | Wilson College | 24300 | 43300 | 0.4385 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 55 | Scripps College | 25100 | 94800 | 0.735 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 56 | Occidental College | 25200 | 87900 | 0.7132 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 57 | University of Massachusetts-Boston | 25400 | 42200 | 0.3981 | 12,234 | 1194 | 0.8296 | |
| 58 | University of Kansas | 25500 | 42000 | 0.3924 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 59 | Lake Forest College | 25700 | 76700 | 0.6646 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 60 | Westminster University | 26000 | 59500 | 0.5627 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 61 | Earlham College | 26500 | 75800 | 0.6509 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 61 | Pennsylvania Western University | 26500 | 35600 | 0.2559 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 63 | St. Francis College | 26700 | 39400 | 0.3227 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 64 | University of North Alabama | 26800 | 41500 | 0.3544 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 65 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 26900 | 83600 | 0.6785 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 66 | University of North Georgia | 27000 | 35500 | 0.2393 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 67 | Creighton University | 27300 | 56600 | 0.5177 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 68 | Mount St. Mary's University | 27700 | 61400 | 0.5494 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 69 | Murray State University | 27800 | 32400 | 0.1414 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 70 | College of Coastal Georgia | 28300 | 43200 | 0.3445 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 71 | Knox College | 28700 | 61000 | 0.5297 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 71 | Regis University | 28700 | 67200 | 0.5726 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 73 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 29600 | 52900 | 0.4406 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 74 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 29900 | 30000 | 0.0033 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 75 | Montclair State University | 30200 | 36300 | 0.1681 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 76 | Gannon University | 30300 | 45300 | 0.3312 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 77 | Agnes Scott College | 30700 | 69000 | 0.5552 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 78 | The College of Wooster | 31000 | 82600 | 0.6254 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 79 | University of North Florida | 31600 | 37900 | 0.1663 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 80 | Southern Nazarene University | 32200 | 48400 | 0.334 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 80 | University of Central Missouri | 32200 | 34300 | 0.0606 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 82 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 32500 | 34700 | 0.0633 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 83 | LeTourneau University | 34100 | 54600 | 0.3754 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 84 | University of Nevada-Reno | 35000 | 35000 | 0 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 85 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35600 | 47300 | 0.2473 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 86 | Western Kentucky University | 36100 | 41900 | 0.1385 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 87 | New York Institute of Technology | 39100 | 78600 | 0.5023 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 88 | Pace University | 39700 | 74100 | 0.464 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 89 | Oglethorpe University | 42000 | 68600 | 0.3876 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 90 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42300 | 54900 | 0.2297 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 91 | University of California-Riverside | 43400 | 66400 | 0.3463 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 92 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43500 | 68600 | 0.3656 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 93 | University of California-Merced | 48300 | 52300 | 0.0764 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 94 | Drexel University | 51200 | 82600 | 0.38 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 95 | University of Utah | 51600 | 53700 | 0.0386 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 96 | Sacred Heart University | 53000 | 75200 | 0.2953 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 97 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 59000 | 61100 | 0.034 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 98 | University of Oregon | 59400 | 68900 | 0.1389 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 99 | University of California-Davis | 63500 | 63500 | 0 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.