2025 Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Maryland

If you pursue a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #7 most popular program 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 Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 114 master's degrees in clinical, counseling & applied psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology School for Your Master's Degree

The clinical psychology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 many resources a school devotes to clinical, counseling & applied psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who choose to seek a master'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 clinical, counseling & applied psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized clinical, counseling & applied psychology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Maryland list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Maryland

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology.

Top Maryland Schools for a Master's in Clinical Psychology

1

Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD

50 Annual Graduates

$47,854 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology needs to look into Loyola University Maryland. Located in the city of Baltimore, Loyola Maryland is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program make an average of $47,854 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from Loyola University Maryland

2

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

13 Annual Graduates

$73,895 Median Starting Salary

University of Maryland - College Park is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the clinical, counseling & applied psychology degree program at University of Maryland - College Park get $19,442 above the typical college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from University of Maryland - College Park

3

Bowie State University
Bowie, MD

27 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology has to look into Bowie State University. Bowie State University is a moderately-sized public university located in the suburb of Bowie.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from Bowie State University

Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	912
Pennsylvania	248	988
New Jersey	188	385
District of Columbia	154	173
Delaware	109	13

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Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Related Rankings by Major

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is one of 24 different types of Psychology programs to choose from.

Clinical Psychology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Counseling Psychology	72
Clinical Psychology	19
Educational Psychology	13
School Psychology	6
Applied Behavior Analysis	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	57
Child Development & Psychology	15

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.