Marriage & Family Therapy
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Marriage & Family Therapy degree recipients are Minneapolis, MN, San Diego, CA, and Irvine, CA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Marriage & Family Therapy is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Marriage & Family Therapy and the types of students that study this field. Capella University awards the most degrees in Marriage & Family Therapy in the US, but Daybreak University and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at San Diego have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy.
Tuition costs for Marriage & Family Therapy majors are, on average, $6,977 for in-state public colleges, and $32,600 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Marriage & Family Therapy programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (106 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (2,187 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (2,187 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Marriage & Family Therapy programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Capella University has the most Marriage & Family Therapy degree recipients, with 347 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy.
Out of all institutions that offer Marriage & Family Therapy programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Daybreak University has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy, with 100%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Marriage & Family Therapy.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Health graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
The industry that employs the most Health majors is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Health majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Health majors, by number of employees, are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Health majors working as Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives, Nurse anesthetists, and Audiologists.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Health majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Chief executives & legislators.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The largest single share of Health graduates go on to work as Registered nurses (36.7%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Health by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Health majors, by number of employees, are General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, Outpatient care centers, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Health majors, by average wage, are Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers, Farm supplies merchant wholesalers, and Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Health graduates by share is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, followed by Outpatient care centers. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Health.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Health. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 31 years old, which represent 2.98% and 2.93% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Marriage & Family Therapy are Masters Degree, Postbaccalaureate Certificate, and Research Doctorate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Marriage & Family Therapy.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Marriage & Family Therapy for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Marriage & Family Therapy.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.11 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (199,567 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Marriage & Family Therapy field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Marriage & Family Therapy majors need many skills, but most especially Social Perceptiveness. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Marriage & Family Therapy majors need more than the average amount of Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Negotiation, Active Listening, Operations Analysis, Persuasion, Systems Evaluation, Instructing, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Writing, Speaking, Systems Analysis, Science, Monitoring, Coordination, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Management of Personnel Resources, Time Management, Mathematics, Technology Design, Programming, Operation Monitoring, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operation and Control, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Marriage & Family Therapy majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Social Perceptiveness is very distinctive for majors, but the Social Perceptiveness, Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Service Orientation, Judgment and Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Monitoring, Persuasion, Negotiation, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Coordination, Learning Strategies, Systems Analysis, Time Management, Management of Personnel Resources, Operations Analysis, Science, Mathematics, Technology Design, Operation Monitoring, Management of Financial Resources, Programming, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Operation and Control, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
