2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling is the 211th most popular major in the country with 3,405 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in marriage and family therapy/counseling.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling

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BridgeValley Community & Technical College
South Charleston, West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend BridgeValley Community & Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major list. BridgeValley Community & Technical College is a small school located in South Charleston, West Virginia that handed out 13 associates’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at BridgeValley Community & Technical College

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Johnson University
Knoxville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major list. Johnson University is a small school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 0 associates’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. 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.

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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

• *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.