by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 student counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree 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.
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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 “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s list. Trinity College is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s student counseling degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Student Counseling at Trinity Washington University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s student counseling degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gallaudet University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s student counseling degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s student counseling degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full University of the District of Columbia Student Counseling Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Student Counseling Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s list. Howard is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s student counseling degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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