2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,116 people earned their degree in pastoral counseling and specialized ministries, making the major the 171st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,592 and had an average of $26,577 in loans still to pay off.

Across Idaho, there were 20 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 9 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,020 and $24,050 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pastoral counseling and specialized ministries. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pastoral counseling and specialized ministries program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in Idaho

1

Boise Bible College
Boise, Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise Bible College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Boise, Idaho, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s pastoral counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Boise Bible College Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Report

2

Northwest Nazarene University
Nampa, Idaho

#5 overall quality in Idaho

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pastoral Counseling Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Nampa, Idaho, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s pastoral counseling degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries at NNU

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• Most Focused Bachelor’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

• *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.