If you plan on majoring in student counseling, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #72 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for student counseling students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 113 degrees in student counseling during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The student counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Student Counseling rankings. We derive our Best Overall Student Counseling School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Student Counseling Schools in Colorado ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of student counseling degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat University of Denver if you want to pursue a degree in student counseling. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver. A Best Colleges rank of #126 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 3 student counseling students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in student counseling has to check out Colorado State University - Fort Collins. Located in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #156 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 student counseling students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
University of Northern Colorado is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in student counseling. University of Northern Colorado is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Greeley. This university ranks 9th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 27 student counseling students who graduated with this degree at University of Northern Colorado in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the student counseling program make an average of $43,490 in the first couple years of working.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in student counseling. UCCS is a fairly large public university located in the city of Colorado Springs. This university ranks 16th out of 33 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 66 student counseling students who graduated with this degree at UCCS in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, student counseling degree recipients typically earn around $43,154 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The student counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Student Counseling rankings. We derive our Best Overall Student Counseling School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
