2025 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Counseling Psychology is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #52 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 38 doctor's degrees in counseling psychology to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Counseling Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of counseling psychology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality counseling psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on counseling psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of counseling psychology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized counseling psychology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for counseling psychology students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Counseling Psychology in the Great Lakes Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in counseling psychology.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology

1

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Western Michigan University is a great choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in counseling psychology. Located in the city of Kalamazoo, WMU is a public university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from Western Michigan University

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in counseling psychology needs to check out University of Wisconsin - Madison. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from University of Wisconsin - Madison

3

Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Ball State University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in counseling psychology. Ball State is a very large public university located in the small city of Muncie.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from Ball State University

Best Counseling Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best counseling psychology colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	273	8
Michigan	257	10
Ohio	253	8
Indiana	202	9
Wisconsin	163	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Counseling Psychology

One of 17 majors within the Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology area of study, Counseling Psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical Psychology	368
School Psychology	64
Educational Psychology	53
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	34
Community Psychology	31
Applied Behavior Analysis	8
Other Psychology & Counseling	6
Applied Psychology	1

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.