Most Affordable Psychology Bachelor’s Programs for 2027

Western Carolina's Psychology BS begins with research design and analysis, then lets you choose courses within developmental psychology, personality and social psychology, biological bases of behavior, learning and cognition, and applied psychology. Options include child development and forensic psychology. Faculty encourage you to take part in research and discuss methods at a monthly psychology research colloquium. Internships and research assistant opportunities provide additional ways to work with faculty or community organizations, so you can investigate a particular area beyond classroom assignments.

The same 28-credit core supports four emphases in the Psychology BS at Brigham Young University-Idaho: General, Behavioral Interventions, Health Psychology and Industrial Organizational. The core covers General Psychology, Career Development in Psychology, Developmental Psychology Lifespan, Research Methods, History and Systems of Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognition, Behavioral Neurobiology, Experiencing Research and Introductory Statistics with R. Behavioral Interventions offers the chance to earn the Registered Behavior Technician certification, Health Psychology adds anatomy, biology and health science, and Industrial Organizational includes management, communication, statistics and theatre courses. Students take the ETS Major Field Test in their final semester, and the program integrates scientific principles with gospel teachings.

Florida Atlantic’s psychology BA includes nine core courses, combining cognition, development, social psychology, and biological bases of behavior with research methods and statistical inference. Students can satisfy the laboratory requirement through a designated lab class, a special-topics research lab, directed independent research, or an honors thesis. Electives include forensic psychology, language acquisition, and neurobiology of mental illness. Transfer students must complete a substantial portion of the upper-level major at FAU.

You can finish this BA entirely online in 16-week courses, and up to 90 of the 120 credit hours may come from a regionally accredited institution you attended before. After general education, the major adds 39 psychology hours, 12 prerequisite hours and upper-division electives. A grade of C or better is required in General Psychology, Professional Development in Psychology, statistics, Research Methods in Psychological Science I and the capstone, plus one course in each of six areas: social, learning and cognition, biological, developmental, clinical and workplace. Practicum and directed study count for no more than 6 upper-level hours.

Black psychology and multiculturalism set the direction of this degree, which prepares you for FAMU's Master of Science in Community Psychology as well as other advanced study. The major takes at least 30 of the 120 semester hours and requires six core courses, among them Introduction to Psychology, Psychological Statistics, Experimental Psychology, Black Psychology and History of Psychology. Students describe the program as one that takes transfer students seriously and gives them the resources to stay on track. A Bachelor of Arts version is also offered, and it adds 12 semester hours of foreign language.

A laboratory-based, two-semester research sequence, Research Methods in Psych followed by Statistical Applications in Psych, is the backbone of the Kennesaw psychological science BS, and the degree also requires Advanced Lab in Psychology. Introductory Psychology and Careers in Psychology come early, courses from the primary areas of the discipline follow, and a senior capstone closes the degree. Majors can choose a Statistics Pathway, taking Elementary Statistics and Introduction to Data Science in the general education core, which adds data skills for anyone eyeing graduate school. Honors students can join the University Honors Program or complete Honors in the Major.

Research starts in your first course. Every student in Introduction to Psychology either serves as a research participant or completes an alternative project, and later you can assist in faculty labs, present at conferences or intern at schools, hospitals and behavioral therapy clinics. The 124-credit-hour BS is taught in person on the Statesboro, Armstrong and Liberty campuses and also online. A behavior analysis minor leads toward work in education, industrial-organizational psychology, instructional design or support for people with autism, and graduate options on the same campus include experimental psychology, behavior analysis and clinical psychology.

Pick a concentration in neuroscience and cognition, development and aging, or mental health, or take the major with none. Everyone completes General Psychology, Principles of Development, statistics, a four-credit research methods course with a lab, Careers in Psychology and a senior seminar. The Mental Health concentration requires Psychological Disorders plus 12 credits from courses such as psychotherapy, behavior modification and health psychology. The degree also lets you train in independent research and take part in applied community practice, and 42 of the 120 credits must be upper division.

UCF combines a common foundation in statistics, research methods, physiological psychology, and the history of the discipline with a choice of six tracks. Two career-readiness courses address practical tasks such as résumés and interviews alongside the academic sequence. Courses include developmental, abnormal, and cross-cultural psychology, and students can seek research, volunteer, or internship experience. The university offers both campus study and a fully online version of the psychology BS.

Florida distinguishes its campus BS from the online BA. Campus students choose Integrative Psychology, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, or Behavior Analysis; the neuroscience specialization adds more mathematics and biology. The online BA follows Integrative Psychology. Students can also explore supervised research, teaching, community internships, or an honors thesis. These experiences have separate credit limits within the major, so laboratory and independent-work choices need to fit the degree plan.