2025 Best Counseling Psychology Schools in Missouri
4Colleges in Missouri
212Counseling Psychology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in counseling psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #90 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Counseling Psychology Schools in Missouri ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 212 degrees in counseling psychology to qualified students.
Your choice of counseling psychology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Counseling Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Counseling Psychology Schools in Missouri ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Counseling Psychology in Missouri
The schools below may not offer all types of counseling psychology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Webster University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in counseling psychology. Webster is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #273 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Webster is a great university overall.
There were roughly 128 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent year we have data available.
Avila University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in counseling psychology. Avila is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Kansas City. This university ranks 34th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 21 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at Avila in the most recent data year.
University of Central Missouri is a great decision for students interested in a degree in counseling psychology. Located in the distant town of Warrensburg, UCM is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1241 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UCM is a great university overall.
There were about 10 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at UCM in the most recent year we have data available.
Central Methodist University - College of Graduate & Extended Studies is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in counseling psychology. Located in the rural area of Fayette, CMU CGES is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 43rd out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 14 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at CMU CGES in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of counseling psychology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Counseling Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
