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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 | Trinity College | 4300 | 92800 | 0.954 | 2,237 | 1393 | 0.3352 | |
| 2 | Pomona College | 5600 | 90000 | 0.9375 | 1,766 | 1520 | 0.0709 | |
| 3 | Smith College | 5700 | 96700 | 0.9415 | 2,549 | 1477 | 0.21 | |
| 4 | Amherst College | 6000 | 96100 | 0.938 | 1,914 | 1514 | 0.0901 | |
| 5 | Davidson College | 6200 | 89900 | 0.9313 | 1,869 | 1454 | 0.1337 | |
| 6 | Haverford College | 6700 | 96500 | 0.9301 | 1,431 | 1499 | 0.1237 | |
| 7 | Bowdoin College | 7200 | 89900 | 0.9201 | 1,881 | 1505 | 0.0713 | |
| 7 | Colgate University | 7200 | 95700 | 0.9243 | 3,193 | 1488 | 0.1388 | |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania | 7300 | 92700 | 0.9213 | 10,013 | 1528 | 0.054 | |
| 10 | Brigham Young University | 8000 | 28600 | 0.7211 | 32,221 | 1374 | 0.6919 | |
| 11 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8400 | 98000 | 0.9146 | 9,157 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 12 | Swarthmore College | 8700 | 92800 | 0.9059 | 1,623 | 1520 | 0.0746 | |
| 13 | Grinnell College | 9300 | 91400 | 0.8984 | 1,788 | 1462 | 0.1451 | |
| 14 | Washington and Lee University | 9400 | 96000 | 0.9024 | 1,886 | 1488 | 0.1397 | |
| 15 | University of California-Davis | 10200 | 38500 | 0.7358 | 32,273 | 1290 | 0.4183 | |
| 16 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | 10600 | 36400 | 0.7094 | 40,754 | 1391 | 0.3915 | |
| 17 | Lake Forest College | 10700 | 76000 | 0.8587 | 1,814 | 1323 | 0.5681 | |
| 17 | Wellesley College | 10700 | 91300 | 0.883 | 2,407 | 1500 | 0.1405 | |
| 19 | Hamilton College | 10900 | 89000 | 0.8771 | 2,037 | 1499 | 0.1362 | |
| 20 | Bates College | 11000 | 91900 | 0.8801 | 1,760 | 1438 | 0.1332 | |
| 20 | Pitzer College | 11000 | 94100 | 0.8833 | 1,242 | 1279 | 0.2516 | |
| 22 | University of California-Merced | 11100 | 39600 | 0.7189 | 8,372 | 1070 | 0.9152 | |
| 23 | Vassar College | 11400 | 92600 | 0.877 | 2,462 | 1499 | 0.1857 | |
| 24 | Duke University | 11500 | 93600 | 0.8774 | 6,523 | 1539 | 0.0571 | |
| 24 | Middlebury College | 11500 | 89900 | 0.8724 | 2,760 | 1499 | 0.1075 | |
| 26 | Lafayette College | 11900 | 84800 | 0.8598 | 2,775 | 1427 | 0.3145 | |
| 27 | Carleton College | 12100 | 74400 | 0.8372 | 2,128 | 1492 | 0.2041 | |
| 28 | St Olaf College | 12600 | 75900 | 0.834 | 3,124 | 1378 | 0.4832 | |
| 29 | University of North Alabama | 13200 | 30800 | 0.5707 | 8,078 | 1124 | 0.7054 | |
| 30 | Denison University | 13600 | 69300 | 0.8035 | 2,406 | 1383 | 0.1693 | |
| 31 | Northeastern State University | 14000 | 20800 | 0.3264 | 5,085 | 1035 | 0.9935 | |
| 32 | Union College | 14300 | 92400 | 0.8451 | 2,065 | 1393 | 0.4392 | |
| 32 | University of California-Riverside | 14300 | 66000 | 0.7838 | 22,599 | 1199 | 0.7685 | |
| 34 | Trinity University | 14600 | 94400 | 0.845 | 2,518 | 1402 | 0.2592 | |
| 35 | Stanford University | 14700 | 71200 | 0.7934 | 7,904 | 1535 | 0.0361 | |
| 36 | Murray State University | 15000 | 27000 | 0.4463 | 8,281 | 1124 | 0.8568 | |
| 37 | University of California-Irvine | 15200 | 36200 | 0.5808 | 30,204 | 1333 | 0.2878 | |
| 38 | Macalester College | 15300 | 90000 | 0.8296 | 2,144 | 1417 | 0.2852 | |
| 38 | University of North Georgia | 15300 | 48000 | 0.6815 | 18,329 | 1100 | 0.6794 | |
| 40 | University of Nebraska at Kearney | 15500 | 22400 | 0.3076 | 4,214 | 1090 | 0.8949 | |
| 41 | Albion College | 15600 | 93700 | 0.8335 | 1,308 | 1065 | 0.807 | |
| 42 | Northeastern University | 15700 | 89900 | 0.8254 | 22,695 | 1490 | 0.0522 | |
| 42 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 15700 | 42500 | 0.6307 | 37,140 | 1442 | 0.4237 | |
| 44 | University of North Florida | 15900 | 33000 | 0.5186 | 13,735 | 1150 | 0.5324 | |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 16500 | 45400 | 0.636 | 18,428 | 1090 | 0.9529 | |
| 46 | Barnard College | 17600 | 99700 | 0.8232 | 3,269 | 1490 | 0.0796 | |
| 47 | Whitman College | 17800 | 85800 | 0.7921 | 1,561 | 1399 | 0.3815 | |
| 48 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | 17900 | 30400 | 0.4118 | 20,592 | 1435 | 0.1407 | |
| 49 | Lee University | 18700 | 37400 | 0.5003 | 3,271 | 1154 | 0.7052 | |
| 49 | Occidental College | 18700 | 89200 | 0.7907 | 1,881 | 1447 | 0.4417 | |
| 51 | University of Nevada-Reno | 19300 | 27700 | 0.3034 | 18,895 | 1134 | 0.7371 | |
| 52 | Niagara University | 19800 | 57400 | 0.6548 | 2,692 | 970 | 0.3972 | |
| 53 | University of Rochester | 20200 | 93100 | 0.7833 | 6,580 | 1469 | 0.4008 | |
| 54 | Georgia College & State University | 20300 | 52400 | 0.6125 | 6,006 | 1155 | 0.8779 | |
| 55 | Kansas State University | 20600 | 28800 | 0.2829 | 15,650 | 1164 | 0.8199 | |
| 56 | Loyola University New Orleans | 20700 | 72100 | 0.7127 | 3,032 | 1145 | 0.9305 | |
| 56 | Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | 20700 | 33400 | 0.3819 | 8,012 | 1139 | 1 | |
| 58 | Luther College | 21400 | 71900 | 0.7025 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8402 | |
| 59 | Pennsylvania Western University | 21800 | 28200 | 0.2273 | 7,586 | 1070 | 0.9433 | |
| 60 | New York University | 21900 | 91800 | 0.7612 | 29,060 | 1520 | 0.0923 | |
| 61 | Cottey College | 22000 | 37300 | 0.4112 | 261 | 1090 | 0.7023 | |
| 62 | Sterling College | 22300 | 64300 | 0.6532 | 670 | 1090 | 0.8916 | |
| 63 | Gannon University | 22400 | 53000 | 0.578 | 2,768 | 1174 | 0.7416 | |
| 64 | Regis University | 23600 | 67200 | 0.6484 | 2,704 | 1199 | 0.8639 | |
| 65 | Wilson College | 24800 | 44400 | 0.4412 | 1,180 | 1040 | 0.9532 | |
| 66 | University of Kansas | 25400 | 44000 | 0.4224 | 22,085 | 1176 | 0.9348 | |
| 67 | Westminster University | 26100 | 81400 | 0.6794 | 842 | 1233 | 0.6657 | |
| 68 | St. Francis College | 26300 | 39400 | 0.3329 | 1,934 | 1035 | 0.8153 | |
| 69 | Earlham College | 26400 | 75800 | 0.6521 | 696 | 1233 | 0.7311 | |
| 70 | College of Coastal Georgia | 26600 | 42100 | 0.3678 | 3,468 | 985 | 0.9813 | |
| 71 | Canisius University | 27800 | 64800 | 0.5714 | 1,724 | 1129 | 0.7224 | |
| 72 | Creighton University | 28000 | 65300 | 0.5709 | 4,647 | 1328 | 0.7975 | |
| 72 | Mount St. Mary's University | 28000 | 61400 | 0.5436 | 1,833 | 1164 | 0.7381 | |
| 74 | Knox College | 28800 | 68800 | 0.5814 | 1,136 | 1287 | 0.7079 | |
| 74 | University of Utah | 28800 | 32000 | 0.1002 | 28,064 | 1237 | 0.8598 | |
| 76 | The College of Wooster | 30800 | 82400 | 0.626 | 1,738 | 1344 | 0.5953 | |
| 77 | Southern Nazarene University | 32100 | 48400 | 0.3367 | 1,465 | 1055 | 0.7703 | |
| 77 | University of Central Missouri | 32100 | 34300 | 0.0643 | 7,584 | 1055 | 0.638 | |
| 79 | Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 32600 | 39900 | 0.1829 | 9,967 | 1080 | 0.9475 | |
| 80 | LeTourneau University | 34000 | 54800 | 0.3798 | 3,184 | 1178 | 0.3801 | |
| 81 | Scripps College | 34200 | 94900 | 0.6399 | 1,117 | 1475 | 0.3829 | |
| 82 | Pace University | 34600 | 74800 | 0.5373 | 8,038 | 1274 | 0.7592 | |
| 83 | Agnes Scott College | 35200 | 69200 | 0.4911 | 843 | 1273 | 0.6215 | |
| 83 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 35200 | 75200 | 0.532 | 3,135 | 1299 | 0.5493 | |
| 85 | New York Institute of Technology | 35400 | 83600 | 0.5761 | 3,355 | 1235 | 0.7808 | |
| 86 | Baldwin Wallace University | 35900 | 66700 | 0.4619 | 2,862 | 1194 | 0.757 | |
| 87 | Western Kentucky University | 36600 | 42300 | 0.1348 | 14,151 | 1090 | 0.9387 | |
| 88 | Drexel University | 38400 | 83200 | 0.5384 | 13,169 | 1339 | 0.7944 | |
| 89 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 38800 | 53400 | 0.2735 | 30,564 | 1298 | 0.416 | |
| 90 | Oglethorpe University | 41900 | 68600 | 0.3895 | 1,361 | 1216 | 0.886 | |
| 91 | Montclair State University | 42000 | 46200 | 0.091 | 18,712 | 1058 | 0.8789 | |
| 92 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 42600 | 54700 | 0.2212 | 20,418 | 1375 | 0.5808 | |
| 93 | Sacred Heart University | 42800 | 67500 | 0.3662 | 6,960 | 1245 | 0.6768 | |
| 94 | Florida Institute of Technology | 43400 | 68600 | 0.3675 | 3,677 | 1224 | 0.577 | |
| 95 | University of Delaware | 47700 | 61300 | 0.2224 | 19,119 | 1303 | 0.6356 | |
| 96 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 48500 | 92100 | 0.4736 | 7,283 | 1451 | 0.1398 | |
| 97 | Indiana University-Bloomington | 60800 | 63000 | 0.035 | 38,093 | 1302 | 0.7821 | |
| 98 | University of Oregon | 66700 | 68900 | 0.032 | 20,622 | 1250 | 0.883 | |
| 99 | University of California-Berkeley | 70700 | 75900 | 0.0685 | 33,469 | 1407 | 0.1104 |
School data is from 2022–2023 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.