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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.


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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 Lakeland University 64 10% $42,276
14 Saint Edward's University 64 6% $61,670
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 Marymount University 50 5% $50,766
23 Mercy College 50 2% $38,200
24 University of Phoenix-Arizona 49 0% $10,912
25 Nyack College 47 8% $40,497
26 Dallas Baptist University 47 4% $41,170
27 Prescott College 47 26% $43,295
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 Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 39 1% $28,595
36 University of Florida 39 0% $21,211
37 Suffolk University 39 2% $57,871
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 Lewis University 33 2% $46,758
43 Xavier University 33 2% $54,310
44 University of Phoenix-Utah 33 27% N/A
45 University of Akron Main Campus 33 1% $27,279
46 University at Buffalo 32 0% $27,758
47 Montreat College 32 17% $39,839
48 Faulkner University 32 4% $35,440
49 University of the Southwest 32 11% $27,626
50 Kent State University at Kent 31 0% $25,886
51 Grace College and Theological Seminary 31 5% $35,902
52 Elgin Community College 30 1% $4,679
53 Rhode Island College 30 2% $23,398
54 Touro College 30 1% $37,436
55 SUNY at Albany 29 1% $26,734
56 Southern New Hampshire University 29 0% $51,538
57 Mississippi College 29 2% $34,005
58 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 28 0% $27,898
59 CUNY Brooklyn College 28 1% $8,604
60 University of Wisconsin-Stout 28 1% $19,973
61 University of Massachusetts-Boston 28 1% $36,647
62 Fordham University 28 1% $74,265
63 Bowie State University 27 3% $23,238
64 Mt Hood Community College 27 1% $7,001
65 Rollins College 26 3% $67,862
66 Seton Hall University 26 1% $59,670
67 Antioch University-New England 26 12% N/A
68 Argosy University-Chicago 25 34% $15,204
69 John Brown University 25 4% $39,802
70 St John's University-New York 25 1% $61,408
71 CUNY Queens College 24 1% $28,907
72 Marquette University 24 1% $58,057
73 East Carolina University 24 0% $21,672
74 Argosy University-Sarasota 24 32% N/A
75 SUNY College at Old Westbury 23 2% $24,133
76 Wilmington University 23 0% $13,010
77 University of North Florida 23 1% $21,384
78 Western Michigan University 23 0% $26,009
79 The College of Saint Rose 23 1% $48,588
80 Loyola University New Orleans 22 3% $56,564
81 Southern Oregon University 22 2% $27,510
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 College of Staten Island CUNY 20 1% $32,394
86 CUNY City College 20 1% $29,967
87 Texas A & M University-Central Texas 20 2% N/A
88 North Carolina Central University 19 1% $24,419
89 Jefferson Community College 19 3% $20,940
90 Argosy University-Twin Cities 19 5% $15,204
91 Argosy University-Northern Virginia 19 37% $15,204
92 University of Holy Cross 18 9% $32,297
93 Rivier University 18 3% $49,560
94 Malone University 18 4% $44,660
95 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 18 0% $32,681
96 Stetson University 17 2% $63,282
97 Syracuse University 17 0% $70,636
98 Oakland University 17 0% $25,524
99 Roosevelt University 17 1% $48,655
100 University of Maine at Augusta 17 3% $9,188

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.