2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in the Southeast Region

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 7,609 people earned their degree in mental health counseling/counselor, making the major the 118th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 920 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 mental health counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mental health counseling/counselor. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mental health counseling/counselor.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor in the Southeast Region

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City College - Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend City College - Gainesville. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region. City College - Gainesville is a private not-for-profit institution located in Gainesville, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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BridgeValley Community & Technical College
South Charleston, West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, BridgeValley Community & Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. BridgeValley Community & Technical College is located in South Charleston, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s mental health counseling/counselor degrees to qualified students.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor

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.