2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in West Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 West Virginia” 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 West Virginia, there were 47 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $66,323 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the clinical, counseling and applied psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia doctor’s degree clinical psychology students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in West Virginia

#1

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,162 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshall University landed the #1 spot on the list. Huntington, West Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s clinical psychology degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Marshall University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marshall University are $21,162, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Marshall University

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. WVU is a large public school situated in Morgantown, West Virginia. It awarded 5 doctorate’s clinical psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

WVU also made our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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