Biopsychologybachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #261 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of biopsychology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 92 bachelor's degrees in biopsychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Our Master of Science in Psychology program is designed to extend your knowledge and discipline in psychology, preparing you for a wide variety of professions and contexts.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to biopsychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of biopsychology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt biopsychology students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized biopsychology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for biopsychology students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Biopsychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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It is hard to beat Tufts University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in biopsychology. Tufts is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford.
Soon after graduating, biopsychology bachelor's recipients generally make around $43,343 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
