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

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 12 schools in Florida 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 1,687 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 schools 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 Florida list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

10 Top Florida Schools for a Master's in Clinical Psychology

1

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL

692 Annual Graduates

$69,916 Median Starting Salary

Florida Institute of Technology is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Florida Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Melbourne.

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology master's degree recipients from Florida Institute of Technology get an earnings boost of about $14,403 above the typical income of clinical, counseling & applied psychology majors.

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2

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

10 Annual Graduates

University of Florida is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from University of Florida

3

Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL

409 Annual Graduates

$46,761 Median Starting Salary

Nova Southeastern University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. NUS Florida is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fort Lauderdale.

Students who graduate with their master's from the clinical psychology program report average early career earnings of $46,761.

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4

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

89 Annual Graduates

$65,597 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of South Florida - Main Campus if you want to pursue a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the city of Tampa.

Master's recipients from the clinical, counseling & applied psychology degree program at University of South Florida - Main Campus get $10,084 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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5

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, FL

21 Annual Graduates

$79,874 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Daytona Beach, Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Those clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who get their master's degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach make $24,361 more than the average clinical psychology student.

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6

Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

37 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from Florida State University

7

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

56 Annual Graduates

$55,976 Median Starting Salary

UCF is a very large public university located in the suburb of Orlando.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program make an average of $55,976 in the first couple years of their career.

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8

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

22 Annual Graduates

$50,213 Median Starting Salary

U Miami is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Coral Gables.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program earn around $50,213 in their early career salary.

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9

Barry University
Miami, FL

53 Annual Graduates

$45,209 Median Starting Salary

Barry University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Miami.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program earn about $45,209 in the first couple years of their career.

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10

Florida Southern College
Lakeland, FL

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized city of Lakeland, Florida Southern is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a master’s in clinical, counseling & applied psychology from Florida Southern College

Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	190	231
Virginia	182	1,115
North Carolina	178	64
Tennessee	166	210
Alabama	151	217
Kentucky	147	685
Louisiana	147	52
South Carolina	146	100
Mississippi	145	21
Arkansas	121	0
West Virginia	112	5

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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
Applied Behavior Analysis	743
Counseling Psychology	325
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	155
Clinical Psychology	126
Applied Psychology	120
School Psychology	75
Forensic Psychology	68
Educational Psychology	43
Community Psychology	25
Other Psychology & Counseling	7

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	556
Child Development & Psychology	29
Other Psychology	17

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.