2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 63 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 3 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
New York, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. HUC - JIR is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 4 doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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2

Neumann University
Aston, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Neumann University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Aston, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

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Eastern University
Saint Davids, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Pastoral Studies/Counseling at EU

• Most Focused Doctor’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.