2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the New England Region

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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 the New England region, there were 483 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,396 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in student counseling. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their student counseling program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree student counseling students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling in the New England Region

1

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s student counseling degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Student Counseling Major in the New England Region. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 0 doctorate’s student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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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• Most Focused Doctor’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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