2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Mental Health Counseling/Counselor is the 118th most popular major in the country with 7,609 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 920 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in mental health counseling/counselor.

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Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree mental health counseling/counselor students.

Top 3 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in the Southeast Region

1

Marymount University
Arlington, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marymount University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. Marymount University is located in Arlington, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Marymount Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Report

2

University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Holy Cross. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. UHC is a small school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 26 doctorate’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor at UHC

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school awarded 42 degrees to qualified doctorate’s mental health counseling/counselor students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Mental Health Counseling/Counselor at University of Florida

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.