2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 14,506 people earned their degree in student counseling, making the major the 72nd most popular in the United States. In , student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $44,222 and had an average of $43,124 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 557 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,062 and $66,922 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,943 and $102,454 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in student counseling. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in student counseling.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in Minnesota

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

#17 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in Minnesota list. This fairly large school is located in Mankato, Minnesota, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s student counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Student Counseling at Minnesota State Mankato

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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