Behavioral Neuroscience at University of California - Santa Barbara

If you plan to study behavioral neuroscience, take a look at what University of California - Santa Barbara has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCSB is located in Santa Barbara, California and has a total student population of 26,179.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Behavioral Neuroscience section at the bottom of this page.

UCSB Behavioral Neuroscience Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology

UCSB Behavioral Neuroscience Rankings

The physiological psychology/psychobiology major at UCSB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Behavioral Neuroscience. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Student Demographics at UCSB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physiological psychology/psychobiology majors at University of California - Santa Barbara.

UCSB Behavioral Neuroscience Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 32% of physiological psychology/psychobiology bachelor's degrees went to men and 68% went to women. The typical physiological psychology/psychobiology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSB since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its physiological psychology/psychobiology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Santa Barbara with a bachelor's in physiological psychology/psychobiology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	47
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	37
White	59
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	23

Related Majors

• Experimental Psychology

Careers That Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology Grads May Go Into

A degree in physiological psychology/psychobiology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of California - Santa Barbara.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.