2022 Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pastoral Studies/Counseling is the 356th most popular major in the country with 1,433 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 181 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pastoral studies/counseling programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the pastoral studies/counseling program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling (Income $30-$48k) in Illinois

#1

Moody Bible Institute

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$16,582 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Moody Bible Institute landed the #1 spot on the list. Moody Bible Institute is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 47 bachelors’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School also made our “Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $16,582 for illinois bachelor’s degree pastoral studies/counseling students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School.

Full Moody Bible Institute Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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