Indiana has four accredited master's MFT programs and this page puts all of them in order, including the ones that publish nothing. All of them are scored on one scale, so the programs that publish nothing sit in the same order as the ones that do rather than in a list of their own.
Every accredited master's MFT program in Indiana, ranked
All 4 of Indiana’s accredited master's MFT programs carry a score out of 100. Three have a full published record behind their outcomes component. One publishes nothing, so it forfeits the 60 points for results and cannot pass 40. That is a statement about disclosure, not about teaching.
- #1
Indiana Wesleyan University - Online (MA)
Indianapolis, IN
90.4
program score
OnlineMaster'sAccredited since 11/13/20203 scored cohortsWhat Indiana Wesleyan University - Online publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time78.3%typical is 70.2%
- Working in the field100%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure93.1%typical is 93.1%
From 3 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Indiana
Once licensed, the median for the occupation in Indiana is $56,810, in a market about as dense as most states'. The range behind that runs from about $46,730 to $82,430, and where you land in it is mostly a question of setting rather than of seniority.
What to know about it
Indiana Wesleyan University has held accreditation on this degree since 2020. Finishing is the hard part here rather than getting hired: 78.3% graduate on time, and 100% of those who do find relevant work. On its own published figures that is 60 credits at $610 each, or roughly $36,600 in tuition before fees. Curriculum runs to 60 credits. Three completed cohorts is a thin record, so ask what the years still in progress look like.
Why it sits here Scored 90.4 of 100, with 53.3 of 60 from a record covering 3 completed cohorts and 84 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2024-2025 19 in process in process in process 2023-2024 15 84.6% 100% in process 2022-2023 16 81.3% 100% 100% 2021-2022 17 70.6% 100% 80.9% 2020-2021 17 – 100% 100% 2016-2017 – in process in process in process Indiana Wesleyan University - Online program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 53.3/6088.9 across 3 completed cohorts
- Transparency 25/25publishes 3 completed cohorts at the address COAMFTE lists
- Standing 12/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2028-05
84 students admitted since 2015
- #2
Christian Theological Seminary (MA)
Indianapolis, IN
86.9
program score
Campus-basedMaster's6 scored cohortsWhat Christian Theological Seminary publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time70.2%typical is 70.2%
- Working in the field100%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure85.8%typical is 93.1%
From 6 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Indiana
Marriage and family therapists in Indiana earn a median of $56,810, on a concentration of work close to the typical state's. Ten per cent earn under $46,730 and ten per cent over $82,430, a spread driven more by whether you are salaried or in practice than by years served.
What to know about it
Christian Theological Seminary runs this degree from Indianapolis, IN. Taking the last cohort with complete figures, its 2020-2021 intake of 11: 63.6% finished on time, 100% found relevant work, 85.7% reached licensure. Graduates reaching a license has fallen over the window, 95.2% to 77.4%, which is worth a question. Indiana carries four accredited master's programs, so a shortlist here can afford to be selective in a way it cannot in most states. Curriculum runs to 63 credits. Next accreditation review falls in 2027. Six or more completed cohorts is enough history to trust the pattern rather than the latest year.
Why it sits here Scored 86.9 of 100, with 50.3 of 60 from a record covering 6 completed cohorts and 104 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2024-2025 17 in process in process in process 2023-2024 12 in process in process in process 2022-2023 6 in process in process in process 2021-2022 12 in process in process in process 2020-2021 11 63.6% 100% 85.7% 2019-2020 13 84.6% 100% 75% Christian Theological Seminary program page The address COAMFTE lists for its outcome data
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 50.3/6083.8 across 6 completed cohorts
- Transparency 25/25publishes 6 completed cohorts at the address COAMFTE lists
- Standing 11.6/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2027-05
104 students admitted since 2015
- #3
Indiana Wesleyan University - Indianapolis (MA)
Indianapolis, IN
84.9
program score
Campus-basedMaster'sAccredited since 05/01/20158 scored cohortsWhat Indiana Wesleyan University - Indianapolis publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time58.3%typical is 70.2%
- Working in the field96.8%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure98.2%typical is 93.1%
From 8 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Indiana
Marriage and family therapists in Indiana earn a median of $56,810, on a concentration of work close to the typical state's. Ten per cent earn under $46,730 and ten per cent over $82,430, a spread driven more by whether you are salaried or in practice than by years served.
What to know about it
Indiana Wesleyan University has been accredited on this degree since 2015, and now admits about 4 students a cohort. Individual years swing hard, though, from 33.3% in 2020-2021 to 100% in 2022-2023, so the average is doing some hiding. The direction of travel is good: earlier cohorts graduated 51.8% on time, later ones 77.1%. Finishing is the hard part here rather than getting hired: 58.3% graduate on time, and 96.8% of those who do find relevant work. Curriculum runs to 60 credits. On its own published figures that is 60 credits at $610 each, or roughly $36,600 in tuition before fees. Several cohorts are still running, 2 of them, the most recent entering in 2024-2025. Disclosure runs deeper than most, 8 cohorts complete out of 10 published. Six or more completed cohorts is enough history to trust the pattern rather than the latest year.
Why it sits here Scored 84.9 of 100, with 47.9 of 60 from a record covering 8 completed cohorts and 65 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2024-2025 3 in process in process in process 2023-2024 5 100% 100% 100% 2022-2023 4 100% 100% 100% 2021-2022 – in process in process in process 2020-2021 6 33.3% 100% 100% 2019-2020 10 75% 100% 100% Indiana Wesleyan University - Indianapolis program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 47.9/6079.8 across 8 completed cohorts
- Transparency 25/25publishes 8 completed cohorts at the address COAMFTE lists
- Standing 12/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2028-05
65 students admitted since 2015
- #4
Purdue University Northwest (MS)
Hammond, IN
21.2
program score
Campus-basedMaster'sWhere it leads in Indiana
Indiana pays a median of $56,810 for this license, and carries about as much of the work per head as the middle of the country does. The range behind that runs from about $46,730 to $82,430, and where you land in it is mostly a question of setting rather than of seniority.
What to know about it
Purdue University Northwest runs this degree from Hammond, IN. Four of the programs ranked here are in Indiana, and this is one of them. No licensure rate is published, so the score rests on graduation and placement alone, as it does for 1 of the 4 programs here. Ask this accredited program for the numbers it has not posted, specifically graduation and licensure across recent cohorts. A program that has them will send them, and one that hesitates has told you something. Studying here means being in Hammond, which is worth pricing before it is worth comparing. Next accreditation review falls in 2031. Three completed cohorts is a thin record, so ask what the years still in progress look like.
Why it sits here Scored 21.2 of 100 on transparency and accreditation standing alone. The 60 points for published results are unearned because this program publishes none, which is a fact about its disclosure and not a measurement of its teaching.
Purdue University Northwest program page The address COAMFTE lists for its outcome data
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 0/60no completed-cohort outcomes published
- Transparency 7.5/25publishes a document with no cohort table in it
- Standing 13.7/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2031-11
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How is this ranking of Indiana MFT programs ordered?
This ranking of Indiana MFT programs is ordered mostly by disclosure. Of the four accredited master's programs in the state, three report outcomes and one do not, and the gap in the scores below is chiefly that difference rather than a difference in teaching. The score is out of 100: 60 points for published results, 25 for whether the disclosure COAMFTE requires is actually there and reachable, and 15 for accreditation status and how long the current term runs.
The 60 points for results are not redistributed when a program publishes none. Sharing them out would score a silent program on standing alone, and since nearly every program is in good standing it would finish near the top, which would mean rewarding programs for telling you less.
A low score here is a statement about disclosure, not a measurement of teaching. A program that has published no graduation rate is given none, no estimate and nothing borrowed from a peer, and its card says so in those words. Publishing the data is a condition of accreditation, so what is being marked down is a requirement the program agreed to and has not met.
The methodology sets out the weights and the thresholds in full.
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Indiana?
Marriage and family therapists in Indiana earn a median of $56,810, against $66,940 nationally, on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for May 2025. That is $10,130 below the national figure , and 32th highest of the 45 states that publish one. The range runs from about $46,730 at the tenth percentile to $82,430 at the ninetieth.
The state employs 510 of them, which is 0.37 times the national rate per head of population. For how that compares with the rest of the country, see the salary page.
How do you get licensed as an MFT in Indiana?
You get licensed as an MFT in Indiana by starting with a qualifying master's degree, and with four accredited programs in the state that is a step you can take without moving. The rest of the route, hours and examination and the paperwork around them, is defined by the Indiana state board rather than by the accreditor, and this page sends you there rather than paraphrasing rules that move.
The value of the accreditation every program here holds is procedural: it lets a state board accept the MFT degree on its face instead of reviewing your transcript line by line. Worth weighing alongside it: Indiana carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, at 0.37 times the national rate, so ask the programs above where their graduates actually end up.
Two things are worth asking the Indiana state board directly before you commit: how many supervised hours it requires, and whether it accepts hours accrued in another state. Programs answer both questions confidently and are not the authority on either.
Both halves of that are covered elsewhere: the route on the career page, the scoring on the methodology page.
MFT programs in Indiana by city
One city in Indiana has a page of its own, covering the programs based there and what the license pays in that metropolitan area. Programs in the rest of the state are on this page and nowhere else.
Where else can you study if Indiana does not have what you want?
Where else you can study is worth knowing even though Indiana gives you enough to choose between, with four accredited programs in state.
The nearest alternatives with accredited master's MFT programs are Illinois (five), Iowa (one), Kansas (three). 17 states have no accredited programs at this level at all, which is the gap the accredited distance programs exist to fill.
The distance master's ranking lists the programs open to you wherever in Indiana you live.
To see Indiana's programs against the other 59 scored nationally, the national ranking puts them in one order.
Cities near Indiana with their own page
These sit elsewhere in the midwest, and each has a page covering the programs based there and what the job pays in that metropolitan area rather than statewide.
Common questions about MFT programs in Indiana
How many accredited master's MFT programs are in Indiana?
Can you get licensed as an MFT in Indiana with an online degree?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Indiana?
Should you study in Indiana or move for a program?
Where do these figures come from?
Every figure on this page comes from one of three places, and each is linked below: COAMFTE for accreditation, the programs themselves for outcomes, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for pay.
- COAMFTE Directory of Accredited Programs Accredited programs in Indiana, their level, city and status. Read 2026-08-21.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics May 2025 release, SOC 21-1013, all Indiana postholders.
- Ranking methodology The three factors, their weights, and the eligibility floor.
Show all 4 program pages cited
Indiana Wesleyan University - Online (MA) Christian Theological Seminary (MA) Indiana Wesleyan University - Indianapolis (MA) Purdue University Northwest (MS)