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Staten Island, New York has 48 accredited schools offering mental health counseling programs, with tuition ranging from $7,340 to $53,290 per year for indexed programs. Staten Island has a population of about 476,015. In the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, the top-earning mental health counseling-related role is Clinical and Counseling Psychologist at a median $120,510 annually (BLS OEWS, May 2025).
The accredited institutions listed below are the closest in our directory that offer mental health counseling programs near Staten Island, ranked by BOC Score and straight-line distance from Staten Island city center. The list is rebuilt from federal IPEDS data on every site update.
Every school list on this site is ordered by the BOC Score, computed from the most recent school-level data published by the U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and IPEDS). To qualify, a school must be currently operating and accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Each eligible school is then scored on five measures, percentile-ranked against schools at the same credential level:
Schools without enough outcome data appear after ranked schools, without a score. On this page, schools are ordered by distance from Staten Island. Advertising never affects these rankings. Read the full methodology.
Source:IPEDSCollege Scorecard
Source: IPEDS / College Scorecard (2023 cohort). Browse all New York schools on the New York mental health counseling page.
Staten Island is part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area (BLS area code 35620). Where MSA-level wages are published, the table below shows MSA medians; otherwise it falls back to New York statewide.
| Occupation | Median Wage | Source | COL-Adjusted (US=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselor | $61,020 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $54,192 |
| Marriage and Family Therapist | $91,130 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $80,933 |
| Clinical and Counseling Psychologist | $120,510 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $107,025 |
| Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Worker | $82,450 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $73,224 |
Source: BLS, May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data at the metro (MSA) and state level – not by individual city.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Regional Price Parity (US=100) | 112.6 (above U.S. average) | BEA RPP 2024 |
Our directory has 48 accredited schools offering mental health counseling programs near Staten Island. The closest is College of Staten Island CUNY in Staten Island, NY (1.3 miles), and the farthest of the schools shown is CUNY City College (19.4 miles). 8 of the highlighted schools are flagged as offering distance education.
Based on BLS OEWS May 2025 wage data, the top-paying mental health counseling-related roles near Staten Island are: Clinical and Counseling Psychologist ($120,510), Marriage and Family Therapist ($91,130), Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Worker ($82,450). These reflect MSA-level medians where published, with New York statewide fallback for occupations not reported at the metro level.
Carteret, NJ is 4.1 miles from Staten Island and has its own set of local mental health counseling programs – see the city’s page. For online programs, distance matters less; for hybrid or in-person formats, comparing both can help.
Confirm institutional accreditation via the U.S. Department of Education database (U.S. Dept. of Education database), and check for any program-specific accreditation listed by the school.
Compare every accredited online degree program with city-level data for Staten Island:
Data verified: August 11, 2026. Salary, employment, and tuition figures on this page are sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS May 2025; Employment Projections 2024–2034) and the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (2023 cohort). The source agency and data year are cited inline with every statistic.
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