2025 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools
72Colleges in the United States
3,683Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #211 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 72 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of marriage and family therapy/counseling. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,683 degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling annually.
Choosing a Great Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling School
The marriage and family therapy/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marriage and family therapy/counseling schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degree Level
The marriage and family therapy/counseling school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees they offer, see the list below. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
14 Top Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
39Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Every student who is interested in marriage and family therapy/counseling needs to look into Loma Linda University. Loma Linda University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Loma Linda.
There were roughly 39 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Loma Linda University in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling has to check out Northwestern University. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 30 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.
39Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
University of Southern California is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 39 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year.
43Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
It's hard to beat Grand Canyon University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Grand Canyon University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the city of Phoenix. A Best Colleges rank of #144 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Grand Canyon University is a great university overall.
There were about 43 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Grand Canyon University in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Fairfield, Fairfield U is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #50 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Fairfield U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Fairfield U in the most recent data year.
UF is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Gainesville. A Best Colleges rank of #56 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were approximately 22 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Rochester. A Best Colleges rank of #82 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means University of Rochester is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at University of Rochester in the most recent year we have data available.
Gonzaga is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Spokane. A Best Colleges rank of #195 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Gonzaga is a great university overall.
There were approximately 9 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Gonzaga in the most recent data year.
Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 12 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of Seattle, Seattle U is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #155 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Seattle U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 18 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Seattle U in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.
There were approximately 16 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent data year.
Hofstra is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hempstead. This university ranks 28th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 4 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Hofstra in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Brookville, LIU Post is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. This school ranks 24th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 12 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at LIU Post in the most recent data year.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools award.
Rankings in Majors Related to Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
One of 13 majors within the Mental & Social Health Services area of study, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).
The marriage and family therapy/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marriage and family therapy/counseling schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
