2023 Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate

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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.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in substance abuse/addiction counseling. To top this list, a school must have a successful substance abuse/addiction counseling program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate

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

Top 3 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate list. Capella University is a large private for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 9 doctorate’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Capella University

2

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California

Top 10% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 1 students 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of California - San Diego Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Report

3

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s substance abuse/addiction counseling 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

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.