2025 Best Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
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Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in
substance abuse/addiction counseling, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #364 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 60 bachelor's degrees in substance abuse/addiction counseling during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The substance abuse/addiction counseling bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on substance abuse/addiction counseling students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other substance abuse/addiction counseling students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized substance abuse/addiction counseling related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for substance abuse/addiction counseling students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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