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2022 Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
14 Degrees Awarded
$4,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mental Health Counseling/Counselor is the 126th most popular major in the country with 6,851 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 752 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great mental health counseling/counselor programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mental health counseling/counselor program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The mental health counseling/counselor 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 “Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree mental health counseling/counselor students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Elgin Community College

Elgin, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elgin Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Elgin, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

ECC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $4,185 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Mental Health Counseling/Counselor students with aid per year to attend ECC.

Read more about Mental Health Counseling/Counselor at Elgin Community College

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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