2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is the 37th most popular major in the country with 31,746 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,872 and had an average of $65,193 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5,036 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,225 and $61,527 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical, counseling and applied psychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent clinical, counseling and applied psychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the clinical, counseling and applied psychology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in the Southeast Region

#1

Point University

West Point, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$16,187 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Point University landed the #1 spot on the list. Point University is located in West Point, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 associates’s clinical psychology degrees to qualified students.

Point also took the #1 spot in our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Point University is $16,187 for southeast region associate degree clinical psychology students.

Read more about Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Point

#2

Florida Institute of Technology - Online

Melbourne, Florida

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology - Online. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s clinical psychology degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Florida Institute of Technology - Online, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Read more about Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology - Online

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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