2022 Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k

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In 2019-2020, 3,028 people earned their degree in pastoral counseling and specialized ministries, making the major the 168th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,316 and had an average of $31,905 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 34 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in pastoral counseling and specialized ministries. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pastoral counseling and specialized ministries programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the pastoral counseling and specialized ministries program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries (Income $0-$30k) in Arkansas

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$13,930 Average Net Price

$32,382 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #1 spot on the list. Harding University is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 8 bachelors’s pastoral counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

Harding also made our “Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Harding is $13,930 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Pastoral Counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Ouachita Baptist University

Arkadelphia, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$13,042 Average Net Price

$22,920 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ouachita Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s pastoral counseling students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ouachita Baptist, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ouachita Baptist is $13,042 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Pastoral Counseling students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries (Income $0-$30k)

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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