2024 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
26Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #52 in popularity, counseling psychology is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. 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 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 26 doctor's degrees in counseling psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Counseling Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree
The counseling psychology doctor'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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various 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 many resources a school devotes to counseling psychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other counseling psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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 counseling psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for counseling psychology students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Counseling Psychology in the New England Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in counseling psychology.
Top New England Region Schools for a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.