2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Student Counseling is the 72nd most popular major in the country with 13,858 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 District of Columbia, there were 43 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,467 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,283 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in student counseling. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in student counseling.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in District of Columbia

1

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s student counseling degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Washington DC
Washington, District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Washington DC landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s student counseling students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Washington DC Student Counseling Report

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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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