2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling is the 751st most popular major in the country with 328 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 32 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Lancaster Bible College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lancaster Bible College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 7 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling at Lancaster Bible College

2

Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Moravian College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Moravian College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It awarded 8 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling at Moravian College

3

Fordham University
Bronx, New York

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fordham University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Fordham U is a fairly large school located in Bronx, New York that handed out 5 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling at Fordham University

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Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Maryland landed the #4 spot on the list. Loyola University Maryland is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 5 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Loyola University Maryland Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.