Doctoral MFT Programs in Kansas (2026)

How is this ranking of Kansas MFT programs ordered?

This ranking is ordered by score, and Kansas is in the minority of states where every accredited doctoral program has published something, so no program here is scored on standing alone. Three components make up the 100: results carry 60, publishing them at all carries 25, and the accreditor's own verdict on the program carries 15.

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.

Does a doctorate change what you earn in Kansas?

A doctorate's effect on what you earn in Kansas is invisible to the wage tables, which do not record which degree you hold. The state's marriage and family therapists appear under one occupation code whether they finished at master's level or went on.

Think of it as qualifying for a different job rather than being paid more for this one. That is a real reason to do it and a poor reason to expect a return on the fees.

The state's own figures, the median, the percentile range and the employment count, are set out alongside the master's programs in Kansas, and the salary page compares every state and setting.

How do you get licensed as an MFT in Kansas?

Getting licensed as an MFT in Kansas starts with a qualifying doctorate, and the state offers exactly one accredited doctoral program to get it from, which is why the out-of-state and distance options on this page matter more here than they would in California. The rest of the route, hours and examination and the paperwork around them, is defined by the Kansas 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: Kansas carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, at 0.30 times the national rate, so ask the programs above where their graduates actually end up.

Ask the Kansas state board two things in writing: what it counts as a qualifying degree, and how it treats supervised hours accrued out of state. Those answers shape the choice between accredited programs more than any brochure will.

For the route step by step, see the career page; for what the scores here measure, the methodology.

MFT programs in Kansas by city

One city in Kansas 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 Kansas does not have what you want?

If Kansas does not have what you want, looking outward is the normal case here rather than a fallback, because the state holds one accredited program.

The nearest alternatives with accredited doctoral MFT programs are Illinois (one), Michigan (one), Minnesota (one). 34 states have no accredited programs at this level at all, which is the gap the accredited distance programs exist to fill.

The online and hybrid doctoral ranking covers what you can study from Kansas without moving.

All 18 scored programs at this level are on the national ranking.