2022 Best Value Other Psychology & Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Other Psychology & Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Other Psychology & Counseling is the 586th most popular major in the country with 689 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 140 other psychology and counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 other psychology and counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other psychology and counseling programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the other psychology and counseling program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Other Psychology & Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Psychology & Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology & Counseling in California (With Aid)

#1

Saint Mary's College of California

Moraga, California

#1 in overall quality

$34,392 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary’s College of California. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Psychology & Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Moraga, California, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s other psychology and counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

SMC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Psychology & Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. The yearly cost to attend SMC is $34,392 for California Bachelor’s Degree Other Psychology & Counseling students with aid.

The impressive 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 low student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology & Counseling in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology & Counseling (With Aid)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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