2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services in Minnesota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services is the 68th most popular major in the country with 12,926 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Minnesota, there were 551 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 417 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,378 and $40,982 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota master’s degree counselor education/school counseling and guidance services students.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services in Minnesota

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Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, Minnesota

#24 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Moorhead. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota list. Minnesota State University - Moorhead is a public institution located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full MSU Moorhead Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services Report

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Winona State University
Winona, Minnesota

#13 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Winona State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota list. Winona State is located in Winona, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s counselor education/school counseling and guidance services degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services at Winona State University

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Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, this fairly large public school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s counselor education/school counseling and guidance services students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services at St. Cloud State University

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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