2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in Arizona

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Student Counseling is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 14,055 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,174 and had an average of $42,631 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arizona, there were 204 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,933 and $42,127 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 200 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,233 and $38,981 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in student counseling. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality student counseling programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the student counseling program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in Arizona

#1

Arizona State University - Tempe

Tempe, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$27,048 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,178 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 40 diplomas to qualified masters’s student counseling students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in Arizona” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Arizona State University - Tempe are $27,048, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Student Counseling at Arizona State University - Tempe

#2

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$19,489 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,664 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Student Counseling Schools for a Master’s in Arizona For Those Making $0-$30k. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s student counseling degrees to 117 students in 2019-2020.

NAU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Student Counseling Master’s Degree Schools in Arizona” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at NAU are $19,489, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Student Counseling at NAU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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