2025 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
583Marriage 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 the Plains States Region 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 583 degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling annually.
Choosing a Great Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling School
Your choice of marriage and family therapy/counseling school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Rankings by 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 the Plains States Region.
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 Plains States Region
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 Plains States Region Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
48Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the distant town of Winona, SMU MN is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #432 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means SMU MN is a great university overall.
There were about 48 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at SMU MN in the most recent year we have data available.
Saint Cloud State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. St. Cloud State University is a fairly large public university located in the city of Saint Cloud. This university ranks 33rd out of 52 schools for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were roughly 10 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at St. Cloud State University in the most recent data year.
Mount Mercy University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Mount Mercy is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cedar Rapids. This university ranks 34th out of 37 schools for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were about 18 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Mount Mercy in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of marriage and family therapy/counseling school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
