2 accredited MFT programs sit in Oklahoma at master's level, and every one of them is ranked below. Each carries a score out of 100 built from published results, from whether those results were published at all, and from the standing of its accreditation.
Every accredited master's MFT program in Oklahoma, ranked
All 2 of Oklahoma’s accredited master's MFT programs carry a score out of 100. One has published one or two cohorts, too few to take at face value, so its result is pulled toward the field median first. 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 Accredited with stipulations
Oklahoma Christian University (MS)
Edmond, OK
78.4
program score
Campus-basedMaster's2 scored cohortsWhat Oklahoma Christian University publishes about its graduates, against the median for comparable programs - Finish on time75.8%typical is 75.8%
- Working in the field88%typical is 88%
- Reached licensure88%typical is 88%
From 2 completed cohorts the program published itself. The mark on each bar is the median for comparable programs.
Where it leads in Oklahoma
Once licensed, the median for the occupation in Oklahoma is $57,670, in a market about as dense as most states'. The range behind that runs from about $28,540 to $94,140, and where you land in it is mostly a question of setting rather than of seniority.
What to know about it
Oklahoma Christian University runs this degree from Edmond, OK. Taking the last cohort with complete figures, its 2023-2024 intake of 14: 78% finished on time. Tuition on its own page runs to $595 a credit before fees. A concentration in trauma sits alongside the core degree. Next accreditation review falls in 2032. Stipulations are on file, meaning a fixed window to correct something. License eligibility is unaffected, and it is a fair question at interview.
Why it sits here Scored 78.4 of 100. Its published 82.5 rests on 2 completed cohorts, too few to take at face value, so it is pulled toward the 89.5 field median before being weighted.
Cohort by cohort
Cohort Admitted Graduated Placed Licensed 2024-2025 20 in process in process in process 2023-2024 14 78% in process in process 2022-2023 11 73% 88% 88% Oklahoma Christian University program page Its published outcome table
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 52/6082.5 over 2 cohorts, adjusted to 86.7 for the thin record
- Transparency 17.5/25publishes a table, but only 2 cohorts has completed
- Standing 8.9/15accredited with stipulations, current term runs to 2032-05
45 students admitted since 2015
- #2
Oklahoma State University (MS)
Stillwater, OK
15.5
program score
Campus-basedMaster'sWhere it leads in Oklahoma
Once licensed, the median for the occupation in Oklahoma is $57,670, in a market about as dense as most states'. Ten per cent earn under $28,540 and ten per cent over $94,140, a spread driven more by whether you are salaried or in practice than by years served.
What to know about it
Oklahoma State University runs this degree from Stillwater, OK. Ask this accredited program for the numbers it has not posted, specifically graduation and licensure across recent cohorts. A program that has them will send them, and one that hesitates has told you something. Clinical hours run through a training clinic the program runs itself, which is the difference between being placed and finding your own site. Next accreditation review falls in 2030. Three completed cohorts is a thin record, so ask what the years still in progress look like.
Why it sits here 15.5 of 100. The program forfeits the 60 points attached to published results by not publishing any, and keeps what transparency and standing earn it.
Oklahoma State University program page The address COAMFTE lists for its outcome data
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 0/60no completed-cohort outcomes published
- Transparency 2.5/25has a disclosure link that does not resolve
- Standing 13/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2030-05
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How is this ranking of Oklahoma MFT programs ordered?
This ranking of Oklahoma MFT programs is ordered mostly by disclosure. Of the two accredited master's programs in the state, one report outcomes and one do not, and the gap in the scores below is chiefly that difference rather than a difference in teaching. 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 program that publishes nothing does not have the outcomes weight handed back to it. If it did, disclosure would become a liability: publish a mediocre record and score below the program that published nothing at all.
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.
Weights, thresholds and what the score deliberately leaves out are on the methodology page.
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Oklahoma?
Marriage and family therapists in Oklahoma earn a median of $57,670, against $66,940 nationally, on Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for May 2025. That is $9,270 below the national figure , and 31th highest of the 45 states that publish one. The range runs from about $28,540 at the tenth percentile to $94,140 at the ninetieth.
No employment count is published for the state, which the federal survey withholds when releasing it would identify individual employers. The full state-by-state and setting-by-setting breakdown is on the salary page.
How do you get licensed as an MFT in Oklahoma?
Getting licensed as an MFT in Oklahoma runs degree, then supervised hours, then examination, and the two programs above are where the first step happens without leaving the state. The hour counts, coursework rules and examination requirements that follow are the Oklahoma 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.
Accreditation is what shortens that conversation with the state board: all of the accredited programs on this page hold COAMFTE accreditation, and a state board generally accepts an accredited MFT degree without auditing it course by course. Where you accrue your supervised hours matters more than it looks, because they are counted by the board that will license you and moving mid-route can mean recounting them.
The Oklahoma state board is worth contacting before you apply, not after. Its answers on supervised hours and on out-of-state experience are the ones that bind, and they occasionally differ from what accredited programs tell prospective students.
The route is set out in order on the career page, and the methodology explains what the scores above are built from.
Where else can you study if Oklahoma does not have what you want?
Where else you can study matters more in Oklahoma than in most states: a two-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 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.
Everything you could study without leaving Oklahoma is on the online and hybrid master's ranking.
The national ranking holds all 59 scored programs at this level, Oklahoma's among them.
Cities near Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma
How many accredited master's MFT programs are in Oklahoma?
Can you get licensed as an MFT in Oklahoma with an online degree?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Oklahoma?
Should you study in Oklahoma or move for a program?
Where do these figures come from?
These figures come from the bodies that publish them. COAMFTE says what is accredited in Oklahoma, each program reports its own graduate outcomes, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the pay.
- COAMFTE Directory of Accredited Programs Accredited programs in Oklahoma, 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 Oklahoma postholders.
- Ranking methodology The three factors, their weights, and the eligibility floor.