Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Master’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Master's Degree Schools in Illinois list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries School for Your Master's Degree

The pastoral counseling master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pastoral counseling & specialized ministries related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pastoral counseling & specialized ministries students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Regrettably , we did not have adequate facts to create a ranking of the quality schools for pastoral counseling & specialized ministries in Illinois. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer pastoral counseling & specialized ministries and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries ranking.

Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	211	95
Ohio	207	29
Indiana	191	41
Wisconsin	173	8

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Rankings in Majors Related to Pastoral Counseling

Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries is one of 7 different types of Theology & Religious Vocations programs to choose from.

Pastoral Counseling Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Pastoral Studies/Counseling	66
Lay Ministry	7
Other Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries	6

Most Popular Majors Related to Pastoral Counseling

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theological & Ministerial Studies	519
Biblical Studies	67
Religious Education	46
Missionary Studies	31
Theology & Religious Vocations (Other)	12

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.