2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Counseling Psychology in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Counseling Psychology is the 90th most popular major in the country with 10,225 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,304 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in counseling psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in counseling psychology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree counseling psychology students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Counseling Psychology in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona Christian University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Glendale, Arizona. It awarded 16 bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 Counseling Psychology at Arizona Christian University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Oklahoma Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It awarded 12 bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 full report on Counseling Psychology at OBU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Aspen University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this medium-sized private for-profit school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s counseling psychology students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
