Master's MFT Programs in Mississippi (2026)

How is this ranking of Mississippi MFT programs ordered?

This ranking is ordered by score, and Mississippi is in the minority of states where every accredited master's program has published something, so no program here is scored on standing alone. Every program is marked out of 100 on the same three things: what its graduates achieved (60 points), whether it published that at the address the accreditor lists (25), and the standing of its accreditation (15).

The distinction matters: a program scoring low for publishing nothing has not been judged on its teaching, because there is nothing to judge it on. No figure is estimated in its place. What has been marked is a disclosure obligation that comes with the accreditation, and the card says as much.

The methodology sets out the weights and the thresholds in full.

What do marriage and family therapists earn in Mississippi?

Marriage and family therapists in Mississippi earn a median of $51,440, against $66,940 nationally, on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for May 2025. That is $15,500 below the national figure , and 38th highest of the 45 states that publish one. The range runs from about $47,790 at the tenth percentile to $59,690 at the ninetieth.

The state employs 140 of them, which is 0.28 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 Mississippi?

You get licensed as an MFT in Mississippi by holding a qualifying master's degree first, and that degree comes either from the single accredited master's program above or from an accredited program somewhere else, because it is the one part of the route with no local substitute. The hour counts, coursework rules and examination requirements that follow are the Mississippi board's to set and to change, and this page does not reprint them, because a stale figure copied from a directory is worse than no figure at all.

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: Mississippi carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, at 0.28 times the national rate, so ask the programs above where their graduates actually end up.

Two things are worth asking the Mississippi 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.

Where else can you study if Mississippi does not have what you want?

If Mississippi does not have what you want, you are in ordinary company, because a shortlist built only from this state would have one name on it.

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 online and hybrid master's ranking covers what you can study from Mississippi without moving.

Every scored program at this level, 59 of them, sits on the national ranking.