2024 Best Mental & Social Health Services Bachelor's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in mental & social health services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #101 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 67 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for mental & social health services students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,123 bachelor's degrees in mental & social health services during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Mental & Social Health Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The mental health services bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality mental health services program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mental & social health services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other mental & social health services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt mental & social health services students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mental & social health services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mental & social health services students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mental & Social Health Services Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Mental & Social Health Services in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in mental & social health services. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

10 Top Schools for a Bachelor's in Mental Health Services

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

80 Annual Graduates

$39,242 Median Starting Salary

$14,000 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in mental & social health services needs to check out University of Pennsylvania. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.

Mental & Social Health Services bachelor's degree recipients from University of Pennsylvania earn a boost of about $6,214 over the typical earnings of mental & social health services graduates.

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2

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

130 Annual Graduates

$33,892 Median Starting Salary

$24,000 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in mental & social health services needs to check out University of Arizona. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the mental health services program earn around $33,892 for their early career.

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3

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

54 Annual Graduates

$34,694 Median Starting Salary

$26,000 Median Student Debt

It is difficult to beat University of South Dakota if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in mental & social health services. USD is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Vermillion.

After graduating, mental health services bachelor's recipients generally make an average of $34,694 in the first five years of their career.

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4

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ

426 Annual Graduates

$34,191 Median Starting Salary

$39,560 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in mental & social health services has to check out Grand Canyon University. Grand Canyon University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the large city of Phoenix.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the mental health services program report average early career income of $34,191.

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5

Seattle Central College
Seattle, WA

23 Annual Graduates

Seattle Central is a small public college located in the large city of Seattle.More information about a bachelor’s in mental & social health services from Seattle Central College

6

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

58 Annual Graduates

$34,686 Median Starting Salary

$19,249 Median Student Debt

Texas A&M College Station is a very large public university located in the midsize city of College Station.

Soon after graduating, mental health services bachelor's recipients generally make about $34,686 in their early careers.

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7

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

21 Annual Graduates

$30,140 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the mental health services program make an average of $30,140 in the first couple years of their career.

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8

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, MN

46 Annual Graduates

$37,009 Median Starting Salary

$27,269 Median Student Debt

Minnesota State Mankato is a large public university located in the small city of Mankato.

Those mental & social health services students who get their bachelor's degree from Minnesota State University - Mankato earn $3,981 more than the average mental health services student.

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9

James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

504 Annual Graduates

$30,000 Median Starting Salary

$21,500 Median Student Debt

Located in the city of Harrisonburg, JMU is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the mental health services program earn about $30,000 for their early career.

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10

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

220 Annual Graduates

$32,167 Median Starting Salary

$30,949 Median Student Debt

Old Dominion is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Norfolk.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the mental health services program report average early career earnings of $32,167.

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Honorable Mentions

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Mental & Social Health Services Bachelor's Degree Schools award.

Rank	College	Location
11	Metropolitan State University	Saint Paul, MN
12	Western Washington University	Bellingham, WA
12	Ohio University - Athens Campus	Athens, OH
13	University of Cincinnati - Main Campus	Cincinnati, OH
14	Southern New Hampshire University	Manchester, NH
15	Columbia Southern University	Orange Beach, AL
16	Rhode Island College	Providence, RI

Mental & Social Health Services by Region

View the Best Mental & Social Health Services Bachelor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Mental & Social Health Services Related Rankings by Major

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 34 different types of Health Professions programs to choose from.

Mental Health Services Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling	1,528
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling	490
Psychiatric/Mental Health Services Technician	478
Other Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions	427
Clinical/Medical Social Work	160
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor	33
Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling	4
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling	3

Majors Similar to Mental Health Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	165,538
Public Health	19,511
Health & Medical Administrative Services	19,391
Health Sciences & Services	18,866
Communication Sciences	11,434
Allied Health Professions	9,264
Other Health Professions	4,516
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	4,402
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	4,027
Health/Medical Prep Programs	3,519

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.