If you plan on majoring in other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #572 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 393 degrees in other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries annually.
Choosing a Great Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries School
The other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries rankings. We derive our Best Overall Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in the Southwest Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries
Southwestern Assemblies of God University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries. Located in the large suburb of Waxahachie, Southwestern Assemblies of God University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #948 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Southwestern Assemblies of God University is a great university overall.
There were about 59 other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students who graduated with this degree at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries has to take a look at Abilene Christian University. Located in the medium-sized city of Abilene, Abilene Christian is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 57th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 23 other pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students who graduated with this degree at Abilene Christian in the most recent data year.
Rankings in Majors Related to Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries
One of 6 majors within the Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries area of study, Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).