2025 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in counseling psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #52 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Counseling Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 35 doctor's degrees in counseling psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools 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 Rocky Mountains 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 Rocky Mountains Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for counseling psychology students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology

1

University of Denver
Denver, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in counseling psychology has to check out University of Denver. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from University of Denver

2

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

University of Northern Colorado is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in counseling psychology. Located in the midsize city of Greeley, University of Northern Colorado is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from University of Northern Colorado

3

Adams State University
Alamosa, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Adams State University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in counseling psychology. Adams State is a small public university located in the remote town of Alamosa.More information about a doctorate in counseling psychology from Adams State University

Best Counseling Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best counseling psychology schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	182	23

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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.

Majors Similar to Counseling Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical Psychology	56
Educational Psychology	24
School Psychology	19
Clinical Child Psychology	5
Health/Medical Psychology	5

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.