2024 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in the Plains States Region
6Colleges in the Plains States Region
540Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #211 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 540 degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling School
Your choice of marriage and family therapy/counseling school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for marriage and family therapy/counseling schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Rankings by Degree Level
The marriage and family therapy/counseling school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Schools in the Plains States Region.
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Best Schools for Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the marriage and family therapy/counseling degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling
347Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Capella University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Capella University is a great university overall.
There were approximately 347 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Capella University in the most recent data year.
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It's hard to beat Walden University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Walden University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.
There were roughly 64 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Walden University in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Saint Louis University if you want to pursue a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #244 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means SLU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 3 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent year we have data available.
42Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Located in the distant town of Winona, SMU MN is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #576 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means SMU MN is a great university overall.
There were approximately 42 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at SMU MN in the most recent year we have data available.
Mount Mercy University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in marriage and family therapy/counseling. Mount Mercy is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Cedar Rapids. This university ranks 23rd out of 40 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were approximately 22 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Mount Mercy in the most recent data year.
St. Cloud State University is a large public university located in the city of Saint Cloud. This university ranks 24th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 10 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at St. Cloud State University in the most recent data year.
51Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Degrees Awarded
Friends University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Wichita. This university ranks 25th out of 47 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were approximately 51 marriage and family therapy/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Friends University in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).