2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling in the New England Region

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Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling is the 422nd most popular major in the country with 1,046 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 27 vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in vocational rehabilitation counseling/counselor.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree vocational rehabilitation counseling students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling in the New England Region

1

Assumption University
Worcester, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Assumption University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Major in the New England Region. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified masters’s vocational rehabilitation counseling students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at Assumption

2

Salve Regina University
Newport, Rhode Island

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Salve Regina University landed the #2 spot on the list. Salve Regina University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newport, Rhode Island. It awarded 3 masters’s vocational rehabilitation counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 full report on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at Salve Regina

3

Springfield College
Springfield, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Springfield College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling Major in the New England Region list. Springfield College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at Springfield College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Vocational Rehabilitation 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.