2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for College Student Counseling & Personnel Services in the New England Region

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College Student Counseling & Personnel Services is the 429th most popular major in the country with 1,082 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 9 college student counseling and personnel services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 college student counseling and personnel services graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on College Student Counseling Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in college student counseling and personnel services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in college student counseling and personnel services.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on College Student Counseling Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on College Student Counseling Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for College Student Counseling & Personnel Services in the New England Region

1

Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Springfield College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on College Student Counseling Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and it awarded 5 masters’s college student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on College Student Counseling & Personnel Services at Springfield College

2

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

#20 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on College Student Counseling Major in the New England Region list. Northeastern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 2 masters’s college student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about College Student Counseling & Personnel Services at Northeastern

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for College Student Counseling & Personnel Services

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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