2022 Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling is the 383rd most popular major in the country with 1,228 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 217 vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 136 vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vocational rehabilitation counseling students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$15,839 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #1 spot on the list. UW - Stout is a medium-sized school located in Menomonie, Wisconsin that handed out 21 bachelors’s vocational rehabilitation counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Stout also made our “Best Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Stout is $15,839 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vocational rehabilitation counseling students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at UW - Stout

#2

Wright State University - Main Campus

Dayton, Ohio

#3 in overall quality

$16,823 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wright State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Wright State University - Main Campus is located in Dayton, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 31 bachelors’s vocational rehabilitation counseling degrees to qualified students.

Wright State University - Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $16,823 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vocational rehabilitation counseling students per year to attend Wright State University - Main Campus.

Full Wright State University - Main Campus Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Report

#3

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$17,708 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 84 bachelors’s vocational rehabilitation counseling degrees to qualified students.

UW - Madison also made our “Best Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Madison is $17,708 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree vocational rehabilitation counseling students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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