Most Popular Schools for Mental Health Counseling/Counselor Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to provide evaluations, referrals, and short-term counseling services to help people prevent or remediate personal problems, conflicts, and emotional crises. Includes instruction in human development, psychopathology, individual and group counseling, personality theory, career assessment, patient screening and referral, observation and testing techniques, interviewing skills, professional standards and ethics, and applicable laws and regulations.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Grand Canyon University	525	2%	$32,100
2	Capella University	418	5%	$15,011
3	Walden University	354	3%	$13,020
4	Lesley University	216	16%	$49,255
5	Lindenwood University	133	4%	$30,500
6	Cambridge College	131	17%	$17,088
7	Lamar University	124	2%	$22,641
8	Nova Southeastern University	101	2%	$50,597
9	Johns Hopkins University	81	1%	$71,901
10	The University of Texas at San Antonio	80	1%	$23,715
11	Springfield College-School of Professional and Continuing Studies	79	16%	N/A
12	Long Island University	78	2%	$56,283
13	Saint Edward's University	64	6%	$61,670
14	Lakeland University	64	10%	$42,276
15	Palm Beach Atlantic University	62	9%	$48,914
16	Medaille College	60	10%	$45,200
17	Lewis & Clark College	59	8%	$66,526
18	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	59	2%	$35,261
19	Monmouth University	57	3%	$56,979
20	William James College	56	31%	N/A
21	Southern Methodist University	55	1%	$74,737
22	Mercy College	50	2%	$38,200
23	Marymount University	50	5%	$50,766
24	University of Phoenix-Arizona	49	0%	$10,912
25	Nyack College	47	8%	$40,497
26	Prescott College	47	26%	$43,295
27	Dallas Baptist University	47	4%	$41,170
28	CUNY Hunter College	46	1%	$22,379
29	Alfred University	46	6%	$45,104
30	Community College of Denver	45	3%	$6,550
31	Antioch University-Seattle	44	26%	N/A
32	Carlow University	43	7%	$44,378
33	Argosy University-Atlanta	42	18%	$15,204
34	University of Toledo	39	1%	$28,423
35	Suffolk University	39	2%	$57,871
36	University of Florida	39	0%	$21,211
37	Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus	39	1%	$28,595
38	Lenoir-Rhyne University	37	6%	$52,920
39	University of Arizona	37	0%	$29,217
40	Pace University	36	1%	$66,499
41	John Carroll University	34	4%	$57,464
42	Xavier University	33	2%	$54,310
43	University of Akron Main Campus	33	1%	$27,279
44	University of Phoenix-Utah	33	27%	N/A
45	Lewis University	33	2%	$46,758
46	University at Buffalo	32	0%	$27,758
47	Faulkner University	32	4%	$35,440
48	Montreat College	32	17%	$39,839
49	University of the Southwest	32	11%	$27,626
50	Grace College and Theological Seminary	31	5%	$35,902
51	Kent State University at Kent	31	0%	$25,886
52	Touro College	30	1%	$37,436
53	Elgin Community College	30	1%	$4,679
54	Rhode Island College	30	2%	$23,398
55	Southern New Hampshire University	29	0%	$51,538
56	SUNY at Albany	29	1%	$26,734
57	Mississippi College	29	2%	$34,005
58	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	28	0%	$27,898
59	University of Wisconsin-Stout	28	1%	$19,973
60	University of Massachusetts-Boston	28	1%	$36,647
61	Fordham University	28	1%	$74,265
62	CUNY Brooklyn College	28	1%	$8,604
63	Mt Hood Community College	27	1%	$7,001
64	Bowie State University	27	3%	$23,238
65	Antioch University-New England	26	12%	N/A
66	Seton Hall University	26	1%	$59,670
67	Rollins College	26	3%	$67,862
68	John Brown University	25	4%	$39,802
69	Argosy University-Chicago	25	34%	$15,204
70	St John's University-New York	25	1%	$61,408
71	Argosy University-Sarasota	24	32%	N/A
72	East Carolina University	24	0%	$21,672
73	CUNY Queens College	24	1%	$28,907
74	Marquette University	24	1%	$58,057
75	Western Michigan University	23	0%	$26,009
76	The College of Saint Rose	23	1%	$48,588
77	Wilmington University	23	0%	$13,010
78	University of North Florida	23	1%	$21,384
79	SUNY College at Old Westbury	23	2%	$24,133
80	Southern Oregon University	22	2%	$27,510
81	Loyola University New Orleans	22	3%	$56,564
82	Saint John Fisher College	22	2%	$49,210
83	University of Mary Hardin-Baylor	21	2%	$41,426
84	Adelphi University	21	1%	$58,430
85	Texas A & M University-Central Texas	20	2%	N/A
86	College of Staten Island CUNY	20	1%	$32,394
87	CUNY City College	20	1%	$29,967
88	North Carolina Central University	19	1%	$24,419
89	Argosy University-Northern Virginia	19	37%	$15,204
90	Jefferson Community College	19	3%	$20,940
91	Argosy University-Twin Cities	19	5%	$15,204
92	Malone University	18	4%	$44,660
93	Rivier University	18	3%	$49,560
94	University of Holy Cross	18	9%	$32,297
95	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	18	0%	$32,681
96	Roosevelt University	17	1%	$48,655
97	Walsh University	17	3%	$44,236
98	George Washington University	17	0%	$71,930
99	University of Maine at Augusta	17	3%	$9,188
100	Argosy University-Tampa	17	25%	$15,204

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Mental Health Counseling/Counselor program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.