2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 147 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 9 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their marriage and family therapy/counseling program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the Great Lakes Region

1

Adler University
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adler University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s marriage and family therapy/counseling students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Adler

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University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Akron, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s marriage and family therapy/counseling students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at University of Akron Main Campus

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling

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.