2022 Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,433 people earned their degree in pastoral studies/counseling, making the major the 356th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 80 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pastoral studies/counseling. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pastoral studies/counseling programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pastoral studies/counseling program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Lancaster Bible College

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$22,349 Average Net Price

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 Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Lancaster Bible College is a small school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that handed out 9 bachelors’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

Lancaster Bible College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $22,349 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Pastoral Studies/Counseling students per year to attend Lancaster Bible College.

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#2

University of Valley Forge

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$20,636 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Valley Forge. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Phoenixville, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UVF also made our “Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $20,636 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree pastoral studies/counseling students per year to attend UVF.

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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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