by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 9,463 people earned their degree in counseling psychology, making the major the 90th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,049 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 counseling psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in counseling psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their counseling psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region list. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region list. Shawnee, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s counseling psychology degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Counseling Psychology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aspen University landed the #3 spot on the list. Aspen University is a private for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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