2024 Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
90Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #391 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for counseling psychology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 90 bachelor's degrees in counseling psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Counseling Psychology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The counseling psychology bachelor'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 bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges 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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
The counseling psychology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Counseling Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Counseling Psychology in the New England Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's 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.