2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Southeast Region

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 Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling is the 254th most popular major in the country with 5,433 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 578 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in substance abuse/addiction counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree substance abuse/addiction counseling students.

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Southeast Region

1

Union College Kentucky
Barbourville, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Union College Kentucky. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Barbourville, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Union College Kentucky

2

Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern University at New Orleans landed the #2 spot on the list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Full SUNO Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report

3

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region list. Natchitoches, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.

Full Northwestern State University of Louisiana Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report

4

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Conway, Arkansas, this fairly large public school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at UCA

5

Mid-South Christian College
Memphis, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mid-South Christian College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s substance abuse/addiction counseling students in 2020-2021.

Full MSCC Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report

5

University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, Louisiana

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Holy Cross landed the #5 spot on the list. UHC is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at UHC

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling

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.