text: what is the best graduate school to apply to if i want to major in psychological counseling?   well, your term psychological counseling is confusing because i can't tell what exactly you want to do. assuming that you want to be a counseling psychologist, here is a list of doctoral programs in counseling psychology: http://gradschool.about.com/cs/programdatabase/l/blcounspsyalpha.htm  the top schools according to research productivity are at: http://www.socialpsychology.org/gcounsel.htm  this list is important for those folks who want to go to a program with an emphasis on developing university faculty and researchers.  here is another list: the 11 top schools, in order, are: university of missouri, university of maryland, university of akron, state university of new york (albany), iowa state university, arizona state university, university of minnesota (twin cities), university of illinois, ohio state university, pennsylvania state university and ball state university.  hope this helps.