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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region

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Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 New England region, there were 795 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mental health counseling/counselor programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region

#1

Lesley University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lesley University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Lesley is a small school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 6 bachelors’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees in 2019-2020.

Lesley also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lesley is $34,096 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Mental Health Counseling/Counselor students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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