2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,430 people earned their degree in pastoral studies/counseling, making the major the 364th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 63 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pastoral studies/counseling. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in pastoral studies/counseling.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree pastoral studies/counseling students.

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

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University of Valley Forge
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Valley Forge. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UVF is a private not-for-profit institution located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UVF Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report

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Lancaster Bible College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lancaster Bible College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Lancaster Bible College is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Pastoral Studies/Counseling at Lancaster Bible College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling

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.