2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in New Jersey

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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.

Across New Jersey, there were 136 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 substance abuse/addiction counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in New Jersey for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in New Jersey for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in New Jersey

1

Monmouth University
West Long Branch, New Jersey

#13 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Monmouth University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in New Jersey for a Master’s list. Monmouth University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in West Long Branch, New Jersey. It awarded 3 masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Monmouth

2

Rider University
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

#11 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rider University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling Major in New Jersey for a Master’s. Lawrenceville, New Jersey is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s substance abuse/addiction counseling degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling at Rider

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Popular Master’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.