by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Mental & Social Health Services is the 46th most popular major in the country with 29,053 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mental and social health services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,158 and had an average of $24,907 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 4,229 mental and social health services graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,204 and $19,608 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 mental and social health services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in mental and social health services. That schools that top this list have a program in mental and social health services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Seattle Central College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region. Seattle Central is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a small population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Seattle Central College Mental & Social Health Services Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region list. EWU is a fairly large school located in Cheney, Washington that handed out 19 bachelors’s mental health services degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.
Full Eastern Washington University Mental & Social Health Services Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region list. WWU is a fairly large school located in Bellingham, Washington that handed out 22 bachelors’s mental health services degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region. University of Alaska Anchorage is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Alaska Anchorage Mental & Social Health Services Report
Lake Washington Institute of Technology landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region ranking. Kirkland, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s mental health services degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
University of Nevada - Las Vegas ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a large public school situated in Las Vegas, Nevada. It awarded 27 bachelors’s mental health services degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.
Full University of Nevada - Las Vegas Mental & Social Health Services Report
With a ranking of #7, Central Washington University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mental Health Services Major in the Far Western US Region list. CWU is a public institution located in Ellensburg, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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