2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Pastoral Studies/Counseling is the 364th most popular major in the country with 1,430 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 339 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in pastoral studies/counseling. That schools that top this list have a program in pastoral studies/counseling in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Southeast Region

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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 43 degrees to qualified associates’s pastoral studies/counseling students in 2020-2021.

Full New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report

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Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Welch College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region. Welch is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Gallatin, Tennessee. It awarded 6 associates’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Welch Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report

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Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary
Charlotte, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southeast Region list. Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 associates’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report

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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

• *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.