MFT Programs
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Louisville · Kentucky

MFT Programs in Louisville, Kentucky (2026)

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Anyone weighing marriage and family therapy in Louisville is weighing 3 accredited programs. This page scores them on the outcomes they have published, and puts the local pay for the license beside that.

How are Louisville’s accredited MFT programs ranked?

Ranking the accredited MFT programs in Louisville uses nothing local. Outcomes carry the most weight, transparency next, accreditation standing last, and a program's number is the same wherever it appears in Kentucky. Only rank changes with the company it keeps. The links lead to the cohort-by-cohort detail.

Accredited MFT programs in Louisville, by program score
# Program Level Score Evidence
1 University of Louisville (MSCFT) Scored 92.4 of 100, with 54 of 60 from a record covering 9 completed cohorts and 159 students. Master's 92.4 Full record
2 Campbellsville University (MMFT) Scored 79.9 of 100, with 42.1 of 60 from a record covering 6 completed cohorts and 298 students. Master's 79.9 Full record
3 Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (MA) Scored 20.7 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. Master's 20.7 No results published
Scored on published outcomes, transparency and accreditation standing. Each program name links to its full entry on the Kentucky ranking.

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What do marriage and family therapists earn around Louisville?

What marriage and family therapists earn around Louisville is not broken out in this release, which happens wherever the survey's sample is too small to report. The Kentucky numbers stand in, and are labeled as such rather than presented as local.

Median annual pay for marriage and family therapists, state against nation
Area Median Employment
Kentucky, statewide $52,420 330 employed
United States $66,940 66,740 employed
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 21-1013.

The tenth percentile here is $41,180 and the ninetieth $74,690. Read the lower figure as roughly what the first post-graduate years look like and the upper as what an established caseload can reach.

Common questions about MFT programs in Louisville

How many accredited MFT programs are there in Louisville?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Louisville?
Is a degree from Louisville enough to get licensed?
Why do some programs in Louisville score lower than others?

Where do these figures come from?

These figures come from the COAMFTE directory for what is accredited in Louisville, from each program's own published outcome table for the rates, and from the federal wage survey for pay. The links in the table lead to the first two.

On this page
  1. Programs in Louisville
  2. What the license pays
  3. Common questions
  4. Sources

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