2024 Best Genetic Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in New York
3
Colleges in New York
47
Master's Degrees
Genetic Counseling/Counselor is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #318 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for genetic counseling/counselor students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 47 master's degrees in genetic counseling/counselor to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Genetic Counseling/Counselor School for Your Master's Degree
The genetic counseling/counselor master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to genetic counseling/counselor students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other genetic counseling/counselor students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized genetic counseling/counselor related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for genetic counseling/counselor students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Best Genetic Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.