Doctoral MFT Programs in Utah (2026)

How is this ranking of Utah MFT programs ordered?

This ranking of Utah MFT programs is ordered on transparency and standing alone, because no accredited doctoral program in the state has published completed-cohort results and none of the scores below clears 40. 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).

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.

Does a doctorate change what you earn in Utah?

Whether a doctorate changes what you earn in Utah is not something any published pay figure answers. Everyone holding the license is counted under one occupation code, which means the state median covers both levels at once.

The return on a doctorate shows up in which jobs you can hold, not in what an hour of therapy pays. Teaching, research and supervision roles ask for it; a private caseload does not.

The state's own figures, the median, the percentile range and the employment count, are set out alongside the master's programs in Utah, and the salary page compares every state and setting.

How do you get licensed as an MFT in Utah?

You get licensed as an MFT in Utah by holding a qualifying doctorate first, and that degree comes either from the single accredited doctoral 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 Utah 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. Qualifying here also means qualifying into an unusually dense market: Utah carries 3.21 times the national rate of these jobs per head, so staying after graduation is a more realistic plan than it is in most states.

Ask the Utah 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 Utah by city

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

If Utah does not have what you want, looking outward is the normal case here rather than a fallback, because the state holds one accredited program.

The nearest alternatives with accredited doctoral MFT programs are California (eight), Florida (three), Texas (three). 34 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 Utah is on the online and hybrid doctoral ranking.

Every scored program at this level, 18 of them, sits on the national ranking.