2024 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in Illinois
4Colleges in Illinois
78Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #211 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for marriage and family therapy/counseling students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 78 degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling School
The marriage and family therapy/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marriage and family therapy/counseling schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
Pick Your Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in Illinois
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Illinois Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
Any student pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling has to look into Northwestern University. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 30 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Adler University if you wish to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Adler is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.
There were about 16 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Adler in the most recent year we have data available.
Wheaton College Illinois is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the large suburb of Wheaton, Wheaton College Illinois is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 11th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 16 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Wheaton College Illinois in the most recent data year.
Northeastern Illinois University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the city of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 50th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 15 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Northeastern Illinois University in the most recent year we have data available.
Rankings in Majors Related to Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
One of 13 majors within the Mental & Social Health Services area of study, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling has other similar majors worth exploring.
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 marriage and family therapy/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marriage and family therapy/counseling schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
