2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the Plains States Region

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In 2021-2022, 3,683 people earned their degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling, making the major the 211th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 583 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in marriage and family therapy/counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree marriage and family therapy/counseling students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the Plains States Region

1

Mount Mercy University
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Mercy University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Plains States Region list. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

#21 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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.