2025 Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
333Pastoral Studies/Counseling Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in pastoral studies/counseling, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #364 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 333 degrees in pastoral studies/counseling annually.
Choosing a Great Pastoral Studies/Counseling School
The pastoral studies/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pastoral Studies/Counseling rankings. We derive our Best Overall Pastoral Studies/Counseling 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.
Pastoral Studies/Counseling 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 Pastoral Studies/Counseling Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Pastoral Studies/Counseling in the Southeast 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 pastoral studies/counseling degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Pastoral Studies/Counseling
Every student pursuing a degree in pastoral studies/counseling needs to look into Lee University. Located in the small city of Cleveland, Lee University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 17th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 45 pastoral studies/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Lee University in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in pastoral studies/counseling has to check out Liberty University. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #265 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Liberty University is a great university overall.
There were about 108 pastoral studies/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in pastoral studies/counseling needs to take a look at Southeastern University. SEU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Lakeland. This university ranks 28th out of 70 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 19 pastoral studies/counseling students who graduated with this degree at SEU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Luther Rice College & Seminary if you wish to pursue a degree in pastoral studies/counseling. Located in the large suburb of Lithonia, Luther Rice is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
There were roughly 22 pastoral studies/counseling students who graduated with this degree at Luther Rice in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The pastoral studies/counseling program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pastoral Studies/Counseling rankings. We derive our Best Overall Pastoral Studies/Counseling School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
