2025 Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
171Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degrees Awarded
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #118 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for mental health counseling/counselor students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 171 degrees in mental health counseling/counselor to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Mental Health Counseling/Counselor School
Your choice of mental health counseling/counselor 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 mental health counseling/counselor 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.
Pick Your Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in Illinois
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 mental health counseling/counselor degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Illinois Schools in Mental Health Counseling/Counselor
64Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degrees Awarded
Every student who is interested in mental health counseling/counselor needs to check out Bradley University. Located in the midsize city of Peoria, Bradley is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #519 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Bradley is a great university overall.
There were roughly 64 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Bradley in the most recent year we have data available.
Lewis University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. Located in the suburb of Romeoville, Lewis is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 39th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 30 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Lewis in the most recent year we have data available.
Gain a strong foundation in the concepts involved with mental health therapy and assessment with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Northeastern Illinois University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. Northeastern Illinois University is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Chicago. This university ranks 59th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 22 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Northeastern Illinois University 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 mental health counseling/counselor 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 mental health counseling/counselor schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
