2022 Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana

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 a Doctorate in Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 92 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,600 and $47,394 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,594 and $127,014 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Louisiana

#1

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$12,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ruston, Louisiana, this fairly large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s clinical psychology students in 2019-2020.

Louisiana Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Louisiana Tech are $12,690.

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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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