2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in Oregon (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Oregon, there were 63 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,400 and $40,897 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 pastoral counseling and specialized ministries graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the pastoral counseling and specialized ministries program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in Oregon (With Aid)

#1

George Fox University

Newberg, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$14,247 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$69,338 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Pastoral Counseling Schools for a Doctorate in Oregon For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, George Fox University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Newberg, Oregon, and it awarded 40 doctorate’s pastoral counseling degrees in 2019-2020.

GFU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Doctor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at George Fox University are $14,247, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries at George Fox University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries (With Aid)

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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