2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 12,323 people earned their degree in counselor education/school counseling and guidance services, making the major the 68th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,337 counselor education/school counseling and guidance services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 counselor education/school counseling and guidance services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in counselor education/school counseling and guidance services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their counselor education/school counseling and guidance services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services in the Southeast Region

1

University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Holy Cross. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region list. UHC is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s counselor education/school counseling and guidance services degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services at UHC

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State University is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 36 bachelors’s counselor education/school counseling and guidance services 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.

Full Mississippi State Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance 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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