All four of Kentucky's accredited master's MFT programs are ranked below, not just the ones with results to show. Every one is marked out of 100 on the same three things: what its graduates achieved, whether it disclosed that, and what the accreditor says about it.
Every accredited master's MFT program in Kentucky, ranked
All 4 of Kentucky’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
University of Louisville (MSCFT)
Louisville, KY
92.4
program score
Campus-basedMaster's9 scored cohortsWhat University of Louisville publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time83.2%typical is 78.2%
- Working in the field100%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure87.6%typical is 92.7%
From 9 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Kentucky
Kentucky pays a median of $52,420 for this license, and carries about as much of the work per head as the middle of the country does. The surveyed headcount behind that is small, so read it as indicative rather than firm.
What to know about it
University of Louisville runs this degree from Louisville, KY. Performance has barely moved in 9 years, 82.6% across the earlier cohorts and 85.2% across the later ones. Finishing is the hard part here rather than getting hired: 83.2% graduate on time, and 100% of those who do find relevant work. Intake has grown across the window, from about 11 a cohort to 19. Four of the programs ranked here are in Kentucky, and this is one of them. Pairing it with a second qualification is possible, through a dual-degree route. Disclosure runs deeper than most, 9 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 92.4 of 100, with 54 of 60 from a record covering 9 completed cohorts and 159 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2025-2026 22 in process in process in process 2024-2025 18 94.4% in process in process 2023-2024 16 87.5% 100% 78.6% 2022-2023 19 79% 100% 94.1% 2021-2022 20 80% 100% 93.8% 2020-2021 17 76.5% 100% 92.3% University of Louisville program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 54/6090 across 9 completed cohorts
- Transparency 25/25publishes 9 completed cohorts at the address COAMFTE lists
- Standing 13.4/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2031-05
159 students admitted since 2015
- #2
University of Kentucky (MS)
Lexington, KY
90.3
program score
Campus-basedMaster's2 years8 scored cohortsWhat University of Kentucky publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time78.2%typical is 78.2%
- Working in the field100%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure92.7%typical is 92.7%
From 8 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Kentucky
Marriage and family therapists in Kentucky earn a median of $52,420, on a concentration of work close to the typical state's. The surveyed headcount behind that is small, so read it as indicative rather than firm.
What to know about it
University of Kentucky runs this degree from Lexington, KY. Direction of travel is the worry, falling from 79.3% in the earlier cohorts to 74% in the later ones. Finishing is the hard part here rather than getting hired: 78.2% graduate on time, and 100% of those who do find relevant work. Kentucky carries four accredited master's programs, so a shortlist here can afford to be selective in a way it cannot in most states. Coursework named on its own page covers play therapy. Worth asking early about the assistantships and tuition remission it advertises, rather than waiting for an offer. Six or more completed cohorts is enough history to trust the pattern rather than the latest year.
Why it sits here Scored 90.3 of 100, with 53.2 of 60 from a record covering 8 completed cohorts and 59 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2024-2025 8 in process in process in process 2023-2024 5 in process in process in process 2022-2023 8 75% 100% 100% 2021-2022 7 71% 100% 100% 2020-2021 4 50% 100% 67% 2019-2020 5 100% 100% 100% University of Kentucky program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 53.2/6088.7 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
59 students admitted since 2015
- #3
Campbellsville University (MMFT)
Louisville, KY
79.9
program score
Master's6 scored cohortsWhat Campbellsville University publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time62.9%typical is 78.2%
- Working in the field62.9%typical is 100%
- Reached licensure99.3%typical is 92.7%
From 6 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Kentucky
Marriage and family therapists in Kentucky earn a median of $52,420, on a concentration of work close to the typical state's. The surveyed headcount behind that is small, so read it as indicative rather than firm.
What to know about it
The record here rests on cohorts of about 37 students. Individual years swing hard, though, from 56.4% in 2019-2020 to 81.3% in 2016-2017, so the average is doing some hiding. Placement has softened, from 67.9% in the earlier cohorts to 58.5% in the later ones. Direction of travel is the worry, falling from 67.9% in the earlier cohorts to 58.5% in the later ones. Kentucky carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, so ask this program where its graduates actually end up working. Next accreditation review falls in 2029. Several cohorts are still running, 3 of them, the most recent entering in 2023-2024. Six or more completed cohorts is enough history to trust the pattern rather than the latest year.
Why it sits here Scored 79.9 of 100, with 42.1 of 60 from a record covering 6 completed cohorts and 298 students.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2023-2024 44 – – – 2022-2023 16 – – – 2021-2022 52 – – – 2020-2021 39 59% 59% 100% 2019-2020 39 56.4% 56.4% 100% 2018-2019 25 60% 60% 100% Campbellsville University program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 42.1/6070.2 across 6 completed cohorts
- Transparency 25/25publishes 6 completed cohorts at the address COAMFTE lists
- Standing 12.7/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2029-11
298 students admitted since 2015
- #4
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (MA)
Louisville, KY
20.7
program score
Campus-basedMaster'sWhere it leads in Kentucky
Kentucky pays a median of $52,420 for this license, and carries about as much of the work per head as the middle of the country does. The surveyed headcount behind that is small, so read it as indicative rather than firm.
What to know about it
The program runs this degree from Louisville, KY. No licensure rate is published, so the score rests on graduation and placement alone, as it does for 1 of the 4 programs here. A concentration in faith-based practice sits alongside the core degree. Studying here means being in Louisville, which is worth pricing before it is worth comparing. On its own published figures that is 81 credits at $560 each, or roughly $45,360 in tuition before fees. Curriculum runs to 81 credits. Next accreditation review falls in 2030. COAMFTE requires accredited programs to publish graduate achievement data, which is what makes a missing table a fact about the program rather than a gap in this page. Three completed cohorts is a thin record, so ask what the years still in progress look like.
Why it sits here 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.
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary 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 13.2/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2030-11
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How is this ranking of Kentucky MFT programs ordered?
This ranking of Kentucky MFT programs is ordered in two groups: three programs with published results, scored on all three components, and one without, whose scores cannot pass 40 because the 60 points for results go unearned. 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.
Read a score in the twenties as "this program has not shown its results", never as "this program's results are poor". Nothing is imputed on a program's behalf; the missing component simply goes unearned, and the card explains that where it appears. COAMFTE requires this data to be published, which is why the absence is scorable at all.
For the full scoring model, including what it refuses to measure, see the methodology.
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Kentucky?
Marriage and family therapists in Kentucky earn a median of $52,420, against $66,940 nationally, on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for May 2025. That is $14,520 below the national figure , and 36th highest of the 45 states that publish one. The range runs from about $41,180 at the tenth percentile to $74,690 at the ninetieth.
The state employs 330 of them, which is 0.39 times the national rate per head of population. That headcount is small enough that the wage figure rests on relatively few responses, so treat it as indicative rather than firm. The full state-by-state and setting-by-setting breakdown is on the salary page.
How do you get licensed as an MFT in Kentucky?
Getting licensed as an MFT in Kentucky rarely means relocating for the degree, because the state is well enough supplied at master's level, with four accredited MFT programs, to cover that stage. The rest of the route, hours and examination and the paperwork around them, is defined by the Kentucky state board rather than by the accreditor, and this page sends you there rather than paraphrasing rules that move.
A state board treats an accredited MFT degree as settled, which is the practical argument for insisting on one and the reason this page lists only accredited master's programs. Worth weighing alongside it: Kentucky carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, at 0.39 times the national rate, so ask the programs above where their graduates actually end up.
Two things are worth asking the Kentucky 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 Kentucky by city
One city in Kentucky 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 Kentucky does not have what you want?
If Kentucky does not have what you want, looking elsewhere is a choice rather than a necessity here, because the state is better supplied with accredited programs than most at this level.
The nearest alternatives with accredited master's MFT programs are Alabama (two), Florida (two), Georgia (four). 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 Kentucky you live.
Every scored program at this level, 59 of them, sits on the national ranking.
Cities near Kentucky with their own page
These sit elsewhere in the south, 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 Kentucky
How many accredited master's MFT programs are in Kentucky?
Can you get licensed as an MFT in Kentucky with an online degree?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Kentucky?
Should you study in Kentucky or move for a program?
Where do these figures come from?
The figures on this page come from primary records rather than from a compiled list. Accreditation is COAMFTE's, the outcome rates are each program's own, and the wages are the federal survey's.
- COAMFTE Directory of Accredited Programs Accredited programs in Kentucky, 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 Kentucky postholders.
- Ranking methodology The three factors, their weights, and the eligibility floor.
Show all 4 program pages cited
University of Louisville (MSCFT) University of Kentucky (MS) Campbellsville University (MMFT) Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (MA)