Student Counseling is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #20 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Oregon to determine which ones were the best for student counseling students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 152 master's degrees in student counseling during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on student counseling students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other student counseling students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for student counseling to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized student counseling related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for student counseling students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Student Counseling Master's Degree Schools in Oregon list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Student Counseling in Oregon
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in student counseling.
Top Oregon Schools for a Master's in Student Counseling
Oregon State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in student counseling. Located in the small city of Corvallis, Oregon State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the student counseling program make about $55,911 in the first couple years of their career.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in student counseling needs to check out George Fox University. GFU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the fringe town of Newberg.
Soon after graduating, student counseling master's recipients usually make an average of $56,769 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
