2025 Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools in Pennsylvania
4Colleges in Pennsylvania
252Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degrees Awarded
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #118 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for mental health counseling/counselor students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 252 degrees in mental health counseling/counselor to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Mental Health Counseling/Counselor School
The mental health counseling/counselor program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for mental health counseling/counselor 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.
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in Pennsylvania
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 mental health counseling/counselor degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Pennsylvania Schools in Mental Health Counseling/Counselor
Every student who is interested in mental health counseling/counselor has to take a look at Drexel University. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Drexel is a great university overall.
There were about 16 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Carlow University if you want to pursue a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. Carlow is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 68th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 28 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Carlow in the most recent year we have data available.
Gain a strong foundation in the concepts involved with mental health therapy and assessment with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Alvernia University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. Located in the small city of Reading, Alvernia is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #889 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Alvernia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at Alvernia in the most recent data year.
31Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Degrees Awarded
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus is a great option for students pursuing a degree in mental health counseling/counselor. IUP is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Indiana. This university ranks 54th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 31 mental health counseling/counselor students who graduated with this degree at IUP in the most recent year we have data available.
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Related Rankings by Major
One of 13 majors within the Mental & Social Health Services area of study, Mental Health Counseling/Counselor has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to Mental Health Counseling/Counselor
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).