2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in New Jersey

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In 2020-2021, 3,405 people earned their degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling, making the major the 211th most popular in the United States.

Across New Jersey, there were 25 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 marriage and family therapy/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in marriage and family therapy/counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree marriage and family therapy/counseling students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in New Jersey

1

Kean University
Union, New Jersey

#17 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kean University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in New Jersey. Kean University is a fairly large school located in Union, New Jersey that handed out 15 masters’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Kean University Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Report

2

The College of New Jersey
Ewing, New Jersey

#5 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The College of New Jersey. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in New Jersey. Located in Ewing, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s marriage and family therapy/counseling students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at TCNJ

3

Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey

#7 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seton Hall University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Major in New Jersey list. Seton Hall University is a medium-sized school located in South Orange, New Jersey that handed out 2 masters’s marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Read more about Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling at Seton Hall

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’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.