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

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 110 master's degrees in clinical, counseling & applied psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Your choice of clinical, counseling & applied psychology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality clinical 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on clinical, counseling & applied psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other clinical, counseling & applied psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt clinical, counseling & applied psychology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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.

More Ways to Rank Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools

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 Maine list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top Maine Schools for a Master's in Clinical Psychology

1

Husson University
Bangor, ME

13 Annual Graduates

Husson University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Husson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Bangor.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from Husson University

2

University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME

85 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology has to look into University of Southern Maine. Located in the small city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from University of Southern Maine

3

University of Maine at Farmington
Farmington, ME

12 Annual Graduates

University of Maine at Farmington is a good decision for students interested in a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Located in the rural area of Farmington, UMaine Farmington is a public university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from University of Maine at Farmington

Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	883
Connecticut	153	251
Rhode Island	127	81
New Hampshire	108	22
Vermont	91	48

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Rankings in Majors Related to Clinical Psychology

One of 24 majors within the Psychology area of study, Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Clinical Psychology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Educational Psychology	85
Counseling Psychology	25

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	8
Other Psychology	6

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.