2025 Best Counseling Psychology Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
689Counseling Psychology Degrees Awarded
Ranked #90 in popularity, counseling psychology is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for counseling psychology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 689 degrees in counseling psychology to qualified students.
The counseling psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Counseling Psychology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for counseling psychology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Counseling Psychology Schools in Kentucky list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Counseling Psychology in Kentucky
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the counseling psychology degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in counseling psychology needs to take a look at University of the Cumberlands. Cumberlands is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Williamsburg. This university ranks 9th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 386 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at Cumberlands in the most recent data year.
Western Kentucky University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in counseling psychology. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #851 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WKU is a great university overall.
There were about 27 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent data year.
Campbellsville University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in counseling psychology. Located in the town of Campbellsville, Campbellsville University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.More information about a degree in counseling psychology from Campbellsville University
Best Counseling Psychology Colleges in the Southeast Region
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).
The counseling psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Counseling Psychology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for counseling psychology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
