2024 Best Genetic Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
52Master's Degrees
Genetic Counseling/Counselor is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #318 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for genetic counseling/counselor students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 52 master's degrees in genetic counseling/counselor to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Genetic Counseling/Counselor School for Your Master's Degree
The genetic counseling/counselor master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to genetic counseling/counselor students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other genetic counseling/counselor 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized genetic counseling/counselor related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for genetic counseling/counselor 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 Genetic Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Genetic Counseling/Counselor in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in genetic counseling/counselor.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Genetic Counseling/Counselor
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.