2025 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in Tennessee
3Colleges in Tennessee
89Marriage 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 3 schools in Tennessee 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 89 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 in Tennessee.
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Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in Tennessee
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.
Top Tennessee Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
Any student pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling needs to check out Lipscomb University. Lipscomb is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Nashville. A Best Colleges rank of #688 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Lipscomb is a great university overall.
There were about 16 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Lipscomb in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Lee University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Lee University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cleveland. This university ranks 17th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 17 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Lee University in the most recent year we have data available.
56Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Any student pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling needs to look into Trevecca Nazarene University. TNU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Nashville. This university ranks 30th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 56 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at TNU in the most recent data year.
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).