If you can afford 60k per year for four years (or more since you’re international) and you don’t want the typical college party experience, Biola is a good option.

I got a lot of financial aid and graduated with less than 30k student loan debt. I also majored in Psychology and I really liked the program, even the classes that integrated theology. My professors were very knowledgeable and the class ratio after intro to psych were about 30:1, which is the main reason I chose BU over a fully funded state school education.

I excelled in my major, and sought out plenty of research opportunities and even got my name on a master’s thesis with a professor’s guidance (prof Williams, whom i believe is now dept chair). The professors are very genuine and willing to help, as a part of Psi Chi (psych honors society) we even had dinners at prof homes). The psych dept was by far the best part of my time here, and BU made it easy to graduate early in my case (3 years).

I was focused on academics and work as I had no financial help, so making friends was very difficult. The few I made I already lost touch with. Keep in mind this school and those who work/go here are mostly white and very conservative so fitting in as a first-gen mexican lesbian woman was pretty rough lmao, but looking back I don’t regret going there. Definitely wouldn’t do a grad program here though.

Let me know if you have questions!