Master's MFT Programs in Nebraska (2026)

How is this ranking of Nebraska MFT programs ordered?

This ranking of Nebraska MFT programs is ordered on published results, and every accredited master's program in the state publishes them, which is not true of most states, so every score below carries its outcomes component in full. 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.

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 covers how each factor is weighted and why the field is not scored on anything else.

What do marriage and family therapists earn in Nebraska?

Marriage and family therapists in Nebraska earn a median of $62,610, against $66,940 nationally, on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for May 2025. That is $4,330 below the national figure , and 24th highest of the 45 states that publish one. The range runs from about $38,490 at the tenth percentile to $95,590 at the ninetieth.

The state employs 260 of them, which is 0.58 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 salary page puts Nebraska against the other states and against each work setting.

How do you get licensed as an MFT in Nebraska?

You get licensed as an MFT in Nebraska 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. What comes after it, the supervised hours, the examination and whatever else the Nebraska board asks for, is set by the Nebraska state board and is deliberately not reproduced here: those numbers change, they differ from every neighboring state, and one repeated a year out of date could cost someone a year.

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: Nebraska carries fewer of these jobs per head than the country as a whole, at 0.58 times the national rate, so ask the programs above where their graduates actually end up.

Ask the Nebraska 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.

The career page walks the same route in order, and the methodology sets out how the programs above were scored.

MFT programs in Nebraska by city

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

Where else you can study matters more in Nebraska than in most states: a one-program offering means most people weighing this decision are weighing somewhere else too, which is the shape of a small field rather than a failure of the state.

The nearest alternatives with accredited master's MFT programs are Illinois (five), Indiana (four), Iowa (one). 17 states have no accredited programs at this level at all, which is the gap the accredited distance programs exist to fill.

Everything you could study without leaving Nebraska is on the online and hybrid master's ranking.

The national ranking holds all 59 scored programs at this level, Nebraska's among them.