2025 Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Doctor's Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
152Doctor's Degrees
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #120 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of marriage and family therapy/counseling. Combined, these schools handed out 152 doctor's degrees in marriage and family therapy/counseling to qualified students.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to marriage and family therapy/counseling students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other marriage and family therapy/counseling students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marriage and family therapy/counseling related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for marriage and family therapy/counseling students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.
by our College Data Analytics Team
