2022 Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries is the 168th most popular major in the country with 3,028 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Georgia, there were 62 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,200 and $28,861 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality pastoral counseling and specialized ministries programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pastoral counseling and specialized ministries program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia doctor’s degree pastoral counseling students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in Georgia

#1

Columbia Theological Seminary

Decatur, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$15,770 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia list. Decatur, Georgia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s pastoral counseling degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Columbia Theological Seminary did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia Theological Seminary are $15,770.

Read more about Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries at Columbia Theological Seminary

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries

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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