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

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In 2020-2021, 328 people earned their degree in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling, making the major the 751st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 9 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 6 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling in the Southwest Region

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Criswell College
Dallas, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Criswell College landed the #1 spot on the list. Criswell College is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Criswell College Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Report

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Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston Baptist University is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling at HBU

• 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.