Best Mental & Social Health Services Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Mental & Social Health Services Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Mental & Social Health Services School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of mental & social health services for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality mental health services program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mental & social health services students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of mental & social health services students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for mental & social health services to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mental & social health services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for mental & social health services students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Sad to say, we don't have adequate data to form a ranking of the quality colleges for mental & social health services in the Plains States Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer mental & social health services and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Mental & Social Health Services rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Mental & Social Health Services ranking.

Best Mental & Social Health Services Colleges by State

Explore the best mental & social health services colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	122	9
Minnesota	120	36
Iowa	110	2
North Dakota	68	0

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Mental & Social Health Services Related Rankings by Major

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 34 different types of Health Professions programs to choose from.

Mental Health Services Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions	28
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling	4
Medical Family Therapy/Therapist	2
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling	1
Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling	1

Majors Similar to Mental Health Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	2,551
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	1,996
Nursing	1,704
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	1,069
Chiropractic	1,035
Dentistry	618
Public Health	225
Allied Health Professions	120
Communication Sciences	114
Health Sciences & Services	95

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.