2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Southwest Region
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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 “Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” 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 Southwest region, there were 185 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 pastoral studies/counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in pastoral studies/counseling. To top this list, a school must have a successful pastoral studies/counseling program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate”.
Top 3 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. Located in Hobbs, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Pastoral Studies/Counseling at USW
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oral Roberts University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate. Tulsa, Oklahoma 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 15 students in 2020-2021.
Full Oral Roberts University Pastoral Studies/Counseling Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The King’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pastoral Studies/Counseling Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. This small school is located in Southlake, Texas, and it awarded 12 doctorate’s pastoral studies/counseling degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full TKU 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
- *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.