When it comes to popularity, clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling sits in the middle of the road, ranking #751 out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 32 degrees in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling degree levels they offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling
Every student pursuing a degree in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling needs to take a look at Loyola University Maryland. Located in the city of Baltimore, Loyola Maryland is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 9th out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 5 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Maryland in the most recent data year.
Fordham University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx. A Best Colleges rank of #109 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Fordham U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 5 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling has to take a look at Moravian College. Moravian is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Bethlehem. This college ranks 36th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 8 clinical pastoral counseling/patient counseling students who graduated with this degree at Moravian in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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