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

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #7 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 2,147 master's degrees in clinical, counseling & applied psychology to qualified students.

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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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology.

Top Minnesota Schools for a Master's in Clinical Psychology

1

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

54 Annual Graduates

$52,793 Median Starting Salary

University of St Thomas Minnesota is a great choice for students pursuing a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. UST MN is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Paul.

Master's students who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program make an average of $52,793 in the first couple years of working.

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2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

61 Annual Graduates

$51,090 Median Starting Salary

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a good option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. UMN Twin Cities is a very large public university located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Soon after graduating, clinical psychology master's recipients generally make about $51,090 in the first five years of their career.

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3

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN

46 Annual Graduates

$57,888 Median Starting Salary

Saint Cloud State University is a great choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Located in the small city of Saint Cloud, St. Cloud State University is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the clinical, counseling & applied psychology major at Saint Cloud State University make $3,458 above the typical graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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4

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, MN

26 Annual Graduates

$73,323 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Minnesota State University - Mankato if you want to pursue a master's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Minnesota State Mankato is a large public university located in the small city of Mankato.

Those clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who get their master's degree from Minnesota State University - Mankato receive $18,893 more than the average clinical psychology grad.

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5

Crown College
Saint Bonifacius, MN

44 Annual Graduates

$50,088 Median Starting Salary

Located in the rural area of Saint Bonifacius, Crown is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the clinical psychology program state that they receive average early career earnings of $50,088.

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Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	315
Iowa	154	50
Kansas	149	151
Nebraska	123	124
North Dakota	115	47
South Dakota	89	51

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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
Applied Behavior Analysis	1,054
Forensic Psychology	258
Counseling Psychology	242
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	229
Educational Psychology	120
Clinical Psychology	104
Applied Psychology	68
Performance and Sport Psychology	41
School Psychology	17
Community Psychology	13

Most Popular Majors Related to Clinical Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	382
Child Development & Psychology	247

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.