2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 5,433 people earned their degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling, making the major the 254th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 874 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 209 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in substance abuse/addiction counseling.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree substance abuse/addiction counseling students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Southwest Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 193 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Grand Canyon University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ottawa University - Phoenix. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region. Ottawa University - Phoenix is a small school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 2 masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Ottawa University - Phoenix Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling students in 2020-2021.
Full University of Central Oklahoma Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in the Southwest Region list. TTUHSC is a medium-sized school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 6 masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.
Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
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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
- *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.
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