2025 Best Counseling Psychology Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
112Counseling Psychology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in counseling psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #90 most popular program 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 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for counseling psychology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 112 degrees in counseling psychology to qualified students.
The counseling psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Counseling Psychology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Counseling Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Counseling Psychology Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Counseling Psychology in New Jersey
The schools below may not offer all types of counseling psychology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in counseling psychology needs to check out Caldwell University. Located in the large suburb of Caldwell, Caldwell is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 34th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 12 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at Caldwell in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in counseling psychology has to look into Felician University. Felician is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Lodi. A Best Colleges rank of #556 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Felician is a great university overall.
There were approximately 18 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at Felician in the most recent year we have data available.
Fairleigh Dickinson University - Florham Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in counseling psychology. FDU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Madison. This university ranks 44th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 17 counseling psychology students who graduated with this degree at FDU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The counseling psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Counseling Psychology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Counseling Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
