2022 Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in California

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 Doctorate in California” 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 California, there were 139 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality pastoral studies/counseling programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california doctor’s degree pastoral studies/counseling students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in California

#1

The Master's University and Seminary

Santa Clarita, California

#1 in overall quality

$10,590 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Master’s University and Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in California list. Located in Santa Clarita, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling students in 2019-2020.

The Master’s University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The Master’s University and Seminary are $10,590, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Pastoral Studies/Counseling at The Master’s University

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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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