2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in Massachusetts

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in Massachusetts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 5,915 people earned their degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling, making the major the 254th most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 99 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,127 and $43,515 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in substance abuse/addiction counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree substance abuse/addiction counseling students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in Massachusetts

1

Bay Path University
Longmeadow, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bay Path University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in Massachusetts list. Bay Path is a small school located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts that handed out 5 masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 full report on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Bay Path

2

Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Springfield College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and it awarded 0 masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 full report on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Springfield College

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.