2023 Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$26,300
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Counseling Psychology is the 90th most popular major in the country with 9,463 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,253 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 92 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in counseling psychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent counseling psychology programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the counseling psychology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Faulkner University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s counseling psychology students in 2020-2021.
Faulkner not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.According to our most recent data, Faulkner supports 2,961 students, and 20 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 12 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,817. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Counseling Psychology for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Toccoa Falls College landed the #2 spot on the list. Toccoa Falls, Georgia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying counseling psychology list, Toccoa Falls has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.Of the 1,698 students enrolled at Toccoa Falls, 27 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 16 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,244. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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