2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 13,858 people earned their degree in student counseling, making the major the 72nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, student counseling graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,291 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,866 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,579 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in student counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in student counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in the Southeast Region

1

University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Holy Cross. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region. University of Holy Cross is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

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.

Full University of Holy Cross Student Counseling Report

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 Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s student counseling degrees to 37 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Mississippi State University Student Counseling Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling

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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