For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 74 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,867 degrees in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services annually.
Choosing a Great Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services School
Your choice of counselor education/school counseling & guidance services school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for counselor education/school counseling & guidance services schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of counselor education/school counseling and guidance services degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
14 Top Southeast Region Schools in Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
It's hard to beat University of Florida if you want to pursue a degree in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services. UF is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville. A Best Colleges rank of #56 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were about 14 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent year we have data available.
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University of Georgia is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Athens. A Best Colleges rank of #69 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were roughly 46 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services needs to take a look at North Carolina State University. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #122 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were about 16 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
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Every student pursuing a degree in counselor education/school counseling & guidance services has to check out Florida State University. Florida State is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee. A Best Colleges rank of #117 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Florida State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 93 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at Florida State in the most recent data year.
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Located in the suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #149 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Clemson is a great university overall.
There were approximately 127 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at Clemson in the most recent year we have data available.
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UNC Charlotte is a very large public university located in the city of Charlotte. This university ranks 10th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 98 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UNC Charlotte in the most recent year we have data available.
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Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg. A Best Colleges rank of #265 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Liberty University is a great university overall.
There were approximately 450 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University in the most recent data year.
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Located in the suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #92 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means GMU is a great university overall.
There were about 41 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.
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Located in the city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #169 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 31 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent year we have data available.
Appalachian State is a fairly large public university located in the town of Boone. This university ranks 11th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 10 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at Appalachian State in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 14 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year.
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Located in the city of Jonesboro, A-State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arkansas.
There were roughly 132 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at A-State in the most recent data year.
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Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #217 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were roughly 80 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
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UARK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Fayetteville. A Best Colleges rank of #239 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UARK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 37 counselor education/school counseling & guidance services students who graduated with this degree at UARK in the most recent data year.
Here are some additional great schools for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services students in the Southeast Region that almost earned our Best Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services Schools in the Southeast Region award.
Rankings in Majors Related to Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
One of 2 majors within the Student Counseling area of study, Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
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).
Your choice of counselor education/school counseling & guidance services school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for counselor education/school counseling & guidance services schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
