2022 Best Value Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

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 “Best Value Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,308 people earned their degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling, making the major the 203rd most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 80 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent marriage and family therapy/counseling programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the marriage and family therapy/counseling program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois doctor’s degree marriage and family therapy/counseling students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in Illinois

#1

Adler University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$37,732 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Adler University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s marriage and family therapy/counseling students in 2019-2020.

Adler also took the #1 spot in our “Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Adler are $37,732, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Adler

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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