2024 Best Clinical Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
6
Colleges in the Plains States Region
129
Master's Degrees
Clinical Psychology is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #76 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Clinical Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 129 master's degrees in clinical psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Clinical Psychology School for Your Master's Degree
The clinical psychology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on clinical psychology students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of clinical psychology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized clinical psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for clinical psychology students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Clinical Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.