2024 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in North Carolina
3Colleges in North Carolina
71Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in marriage and family therapy/counseling, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #211 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of marriage and family therapy/counseling. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 71 degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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. For our Best Overall Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in North Carolina
The schools below may not offer all types of marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top North Carolina Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
East Carolina University is a good option for students interested in a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #414 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means ECU is a great university overall.
There were about 12 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Appalachian State University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Appalachian State is a very large public university located in the town of Boone. This university ranks 9th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 23 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Appalachian State in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Pfeiffer University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the rural area of Misenheimer, Pfeiffer University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 40th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 24 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Pfeiffer University in the most recent data year.
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.
Majors Similar to Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
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).