2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US 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 Far Western US region, there were 1,237 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their substance abuse/addiction counseling program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Far Western US Region

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University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California

#16 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - San Diego landed the #1 spot on the list. University of California - San Diego is a public institution located in La Jolla, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at University of California - San Diego

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University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a public institution located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at UNLV

• Most Focused Doctor’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.