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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 | Davidson College | 2800 | 95600 | 0.9704 | 1,860 | 1463 | 0.1262 | |
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | 4800 | 93100 | 0.9489 | 9,989 | 1535 | 0.0492 | |
| 3 | Amherst College | 5800 | 99300 | 0.9412 | 1,907 | 1500 | 0.0772 | |
| 4 | Trinity College | 6500 | 92800 | 0.9295 | 2,112 | 1404 | 0.2953 | |
| 5 | Bowdoin College | 6600 | 96700 | 0.9316 | 1,841 | 1499 | 0.0681 | |
| 6 | University of Richmond | 6800 | 92700 | 0.9262 | 3,052 | 1472 | 0.2224 | |
| 7 | Pomona College | 6900 | 93700 | 0.9264 | 1,721 | 1499 | 0.0714 | |
| 7 | Smith College | 6900 | 97700 | 0.9293 | 2,578 | 1466 | 0.2241 | |
| 9 | Swarthmore College | 7500 | 92800 | 0.9189 | 1,631 | 1513 | 0.0752 | |
| 10 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 22200 | 0.6405 | 34,354 | 1374 | 0.6862 | |
| 11 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8600 | 98000 | 0.9125 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 12 | Middlebury College | 8700 | 94500 | 0.908 | 2,640 | 1499 | 0.1277 | |
| 13 | Bates College | 8900 | 92900 | 0.9041 | 1,736 | 1412 | 0.1483 | |
| 14 | Grinnell College | 9000 | 93600 | 0.9035 | 1,668 | 1469 | 0.1605 | |
| 15 | Washington and Lee University | 9400 | 96300 | 0.902 | 1,916 | 1484 | 0.1354 | |
| 16 | Colgate University | 9500 | 95800 | 0.9008 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 17 | Haverford College | 10100 | 97900 | 0.8968 | 1,420 | 1490 | 0.1331 | |
| 18 | University of California-Merced | 10200 | 40600 | 0.7491 | 8,234 | 1070 | 0.9704 | |
| 19 | Western Kentucky University | 10400 | 27500 | 0.6216 | 13,732 | 1090 | 0.9145 | |
| 20 | Cornell University | 10500 | 93700 | 0.8878 | 16,138 | 1528 | 0.0838 | |
| 20 | Wellesley College | 10500 | 95400 | 0.8895 | 2,366 | 1499 | 0.1479 | |
| 22 | University of Rochester | 10600 | 96300 | 0.8903 | 6,096 | 1448 | 0.4191 | |
| 23 | St Olaf College | 10800 | 79500 | 0.8641 | 3,114 | 1374 | 0.4338 | |
| 24 | Pitzer College | 12100 | 94400 | 0.8721 | 1,193 | 1279 | 0.2685 | |
| 25 | Lafayette College | 12300 | 87100 | 0.8582 | 2,675 | 1415 | 0.3116 | |
| 25 | Vassar College | 12300 | 93100 | 0.8679 | 2,514 | 1488 | 0.2093 | |
| 27 | Albion College | 12700 | 109600 | 0.884 | 1,168 | 1065 | 0.7437 | |
| 28 | Hamilton College | 12900 | 98000 | 0.8684 | 1,980 | 1484 | 0.1359 | |
| 29 | University of North Florida | 13300 | 30500 | 0.5638 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 30 | University of Delaware | 13400 | 34500 | 0.6119 | 19,287 | 1302 | 0.6924 | |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13400 | 21300 | 0.3708 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 32 | Northeastern State University | 13500 | 28600 | 0.5288 | 5,145 | 1035 | 0.9974 | |
| 32 | Trinity University | 13500 | 67000 | 0.7982 | 2,423 | 1408 | 0.2488 | |
| 34 | Denison University | 13700 | 69300 | 0.8029 | 2,458 | 1366 | 0.1955 | |
| 35 | Carleton College | 14000 | 74400 | 0.8111 | 1,974 | 1492 | 0.2178 | |
| 36 | Murray State University | 14600 | 27000 | 0.4597 | 8,217 | 1124 | 0.8413 | |
| 37 | University of North Alabama | 14700 | 37300 | 0.606 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 38 | University of California-Riverside | 14800 | 66000 | 0.7762 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 39 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | 14900 | 57100 | 0.7386 | 15,735 | 1069 | 0.8797 | |
| 40 | Stanford University | 15000 | 1932000 | 0.9923 | 7,346 | 1542 | 0.038 | |
| 41 | Macalester College | 15400 | 94800 | 0.8372 | 2,068 | 1415 | 0.2813 | |
| 42 | Colorado College | 15600 | 98000 | 0.8413 | 1,887 | 1357 | 0.2209 | |
| 43 | Duke University | 15800 | 98600 | 0.8396 | 6,525 | 1533 | 0.0524 | |
| 44 | Niagara University | 15900 | 57400 | 0.7227 | 2,638 | 1170 | 0.876 | |
| 45 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 16100 | 26900 | 0.4031 | 9,847 | 1090 | 0.9309 | |
| 45 | Kansas State University | 16100 | 26400 | 0.3909 | 16,555 | 1163 | 0.875 | |
| 47 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 16200 | 33900 | 0.5219 | 4,056 | 1090 | 0.4151 | |
| 48 | Union College | 16500 | 93300 | 0.8231 | 1,954 | 1399 | 0.4342 | |
| 49 | Barnard College | 17500 | 99700 | 0.8241 | 3,223 | 1499 | 0.1005 | |
| 50 | Northeastern University | 18000 | 90000 | 0.7999 | 22,456 | 1481 | 0.0562 | |
| 51 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 18400 | 30600 | 0.3971 | 38,463 | 1324 | 0.7589 | |
| 52 | Occidental College | 18700 | 96300 | 0.8055 | 1,822 | 1440 | 0.4485 | |
| 53 | Pennsylvania Western University | 19600 | 31000 | 0.3679 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 54 | Whitman College | 20000 | 85800 | 0.7665 | 1,468 | 1397 | 0.4016 | |
| 55 | Cottey College | 20400 | 37300 | 0.4523 | 261 | 991 | 0.7023 | |
| 56 | College of Coastal Georgia | 21300 | 51600 | 0.587 | 3,609 | 1005 | 0.9885 | |
| 56 | Georgia College & State University | 21300 | 52400 | 0.5934 | 6,250 | 1165 | 0.8466 | |
| 56 | Luther College | 21300 | 75400 | 0.7183 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 59 | Stetson University | 21700 | 81100 | 0.7327 | 2,414 | 1089 | 0.7167 | |
| 60 | University of Kansas | 22000 | 44400 | 0.5042 | 22,544 | 1176 | 0.9258 | |
| 61 | Sterling College | 22200 | 77400 | 0.7139 | 649 | 1103 | 0.8759 | |
| 62 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 24600 | 40600 | 0.3942 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 62 | Wilson College | 24600 | 44400 | 0.4452 | 1,379 | 1055 | 0.9211 | |
| 64 | Lake Forest College | 24800 | 76000 | 0.6733 | 1,786 | 1304 | 0.5363 | |
| 65 | Earlham College | 26100 | 75800 | 0.6554 | 670 | 1237 | 0.7904 | |
| 66 | Temple University | 26200 | 36100 | 0.2744 | 21,031 | 1172 | 0.8622 | |
| 67 | St. Francis College | 26900 | 39400 | 0.3177 | 1,719 | 1035 | 1 | |
| 68 | Creighton University | 27700 | 67900 | 0.5918 | 4,833 | 1328 | 0.9216 | |
| 69 | Mount St. Mary's University | 28000 | 61400 | 0.544 | 1,804 | 1159 | 0.7258 | |
| 70 | Knox College | 28200 | 68800 | 0.5901 | 1,108 | 1274 | 0.772 | |
| 71 | New York University | 29000 | 92100 | 0.6851 | 29,471 | 1520 | 0.0906 | |
| 71 | University of Toledo | 29000 | 32600 | 0.1093 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 73 | Canisius University | 30000 | 54700 | 0.4518 | 1,728 | 1186 | 0.7323 | |
| 74 | Scripps College | 30100 | 97800 | 0.6921 | 1,103 | 1472 | 0.3988 | |
| 75 | The College of Wooster | 30600 | 82400 | 0.6292 | 1,515 | 1345 | 0.6438 | |
| 76 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 31100 | 50300 | 0.3816 | 21,028 | 1450 | 0.1334 | |
| 77 | Drexel University | 31400 | 84100 | 0.6269 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 78 | Southern Nazarene University | 31800 | 48400 | 0.3442 | 1,473 | 1055 | 1 | |
| 78 | Westminster University | 31800 | 94100 | 0.6623 | 868 | 1205 | 0.6513 | |
| 80 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 31900 | 35200 | 0.0938 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 81 | University of Central Missouri | 33300 | 35800 | 0.0716 | 10,397 | 1055 | 0.7439 | |
| 82 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 33600 | 75200 | 0.5533 | 3,190 | 1317 | 0.6187 | |
| 83 | Pace University | 33900 | 75700 | 0.5525 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 84 | Berry College | 34400 | 62400 | 0.4488 | 2,262 | 1219 | 0.7315 | |
| 85 | University of Nevada-Reno | 34700 | 45800 | 0.2425 | 20,204 | 1109 | 0.8313 | |
| 86 | New York Institute of Technology | 35100 | 83600 | 0.5799 | 3,646 | 1298 | 0.8102 | |
| 87 | Agnes Scott College | 36300 | 71200 | 0.49 | 731 | 1219 | 0.6353 | |
| 88 | Loyola University New Orleans | 37000 | 74600 | 0.5039 | 2,871 | 1150 | 0.9058 | |
| 89 | Baldwin Wallace University | 39100 | 69800 | 0.44 | 2,532 | 1210 | 0.7739 | |
| 90 | University of Charleston | 39200 | 51200 | 0.2342 | 2,348 | 1075 | 0.5975 | |
| 91 | Oglethorpe University | 41500 | 68600 | 0.3948 | 1,338 | 1205 | 0.898 | |
| 92 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43200 | 68700 | 0.3719 | 4,279 | 1234 | 0.5796 | |
| 93 | Texas Christian University | 44200 | 87400 | 0.4945 | 11,152 | 1268 | 0.4809 | |
| 94 | LeTourneau University | 44500 | 57300 | 0.2232 | 2,903 | 1242 | 0.4879 | |
| 95 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 49400 | 67600 | 0.2693 | 40,996 | 1399 | 0.4175 | |
| 96 | Sacred Heart University | 49800 | 67500 | 0.2622 | 7,291 | 1265 | 0.6363 | |
| 97 | University of North Georgia | 50100 | 57000 | 0.121 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 98 | Woodbury University | 50700 | 69500 | 0.2704 | 725 | 1087 | 0.7143 | |
| 99 | University of Utah | 51100 | 53700 | 0.0478 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 100 | University of California-Berkeley | 51900 | 76600 | 0.3224 | 33,513 | 1407 | 0.1145 | |
| 101 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 53400 | 96100 | 0.4442 | 6,839 | 1469 | 0.1446 | |
| 102 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 54900 | 68800 | 0.2022 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 103 | University of California-Davis | 68000 | 69900 | 0.0272 | 31,695 | 1290 | 0.4435 | |
| 104 | University of Oregon | 68700 | 71300 | 0.036 | 20,710 | 1193 | 0.8742 | |
| 105 | University of California-Irvine | 72000 | 75000 | 0.04 | 30,260 | 1333 | 0.2895 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.