2022 Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 6,851 people earned their degree in mental health counseling/counselor, making the major the 126th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,284 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mental health counseling/counselor programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the mental health counseling/counselor program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Austin Community College District

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$3,134 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Community College District landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Austin Community College District is $3,134 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Mental Health Counseling/Counselor students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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