2025 Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #88 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 105 bachelor's degrees in clinical, counseling & applied psychology to qualified students.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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

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 - The number of clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who choose to seek a bachelor'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.
• Student Debt - How much debt clinical, counseling & applied psychology students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Georgia

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

Top Georgia Schools for a Bachelor's in Clinical Psychology

1

Clayton State University
Morrow, GA

78 Annual Graduates

$27,532 Median Starting Salary

$10,195 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology needs to look into Clayton State University. Clayton State University is a moderately-sized public university located in the large suburb of Morrow.

Those clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who get their bachelor's degree from Clayton State University receive $3,107 more than the typical clinical psychology graduate.

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2

Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA

23 Annual Graduates

$21,319 Median Starting Salary

Toccoa Falls College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology. Toccoa Falls is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Toccoa Falls.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the clinical psychology program make about $21,319 for their early career.

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

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	137
Tennessee	220	60
North Carolina	213	47
Virginia	213	20
South Carolina	195	32
Kentucky	187	6
Alabama	184	28
Mississippi	169	86
Arkansas	167	2
West Virginia	147	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Clinical Psychology

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

Clinical Psychology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Psychology	78
Counseling Psychology	25
Other Psychology & Counseling	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Clinical Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	3,394
Child Development & Psychology	369

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.