2025 Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Counseling Psychology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #391 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for counseling psychology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 42 bachelor's degrees in counseling psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to counseling psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other counseling psychology 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 counseling psychology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for counseling psychology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Counseling Psychology Schools

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 Counseling Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Counseling Psychology in Pennsylvania

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Bachelor's in Counseling Psychology

1

Delaware Valley University
Doylestown, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology has to look into Delaware Valley University. Located in the suburb of Doylestown, DelVal is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in counseling psychology from Delaware Valley University

2

Clarks Summit University
Clarks Summit, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

20 Annual Graduates

Clarks Summit University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology. CSU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Clarks Summit.More information about a bachelor’s in counseling psychology from Clarks Summit University

Best Counseling Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Counseling Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Maryland	370	15

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Counseling Psychology Related Rankings by Major

Counseling Psychology is one of 17 different types of Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Applied Psychology	34
Educational Psychology	26
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	17
Applied Behavior Analysis	12
Health/Medical Psychology	11

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.