2024 Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
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Colleges in the New England Region
887
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
mental health counseling/counselor, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #28 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 17 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 887 master's degrees in mental health counseling/counselor during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Mental Health Counseling/Counselor School for Your Master's Degree
The mental health counseling/counselor master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality mental health counseling/counselor program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mental health counseling/counselor students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other mental health counseling/counselor students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mental health counseling/counselor related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mental health counseling/counselor students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.