2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in Wisconsin

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Wisconsin, there were 38 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,375 and $37,397 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in Wisconsin

1

Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Edgewood College landed the #1 spot on the list. Edgewood is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Madison, Wisconsin. It awarded 23 masters’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Edgewood

2

University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin

#9 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in Wisconsin list. UW - Stout is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 15 masters’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at UW - Stout

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.