2023 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 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 “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in student counseling. To top this list, a school must have a successful student counseling program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The student counseling school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree student counseling students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Student Counseling 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 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s student counseling 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.

Read full report on Student Counseling at UHC

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mississippi State is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 37 bachelors’s student counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full Mississippi State University Student Counseling Report

• Most Popular 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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