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Most Popular Schools for Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals, including but not limited to, ordained clergy and other counseling professionals to respond to the emotional and/or spiritual needs of patients and families in health care emergencies and other situations, and to consult with and counsel other health care professionals. Includes instruction in advanced interpersonal communication; individual and small group counseling; interdisciplinary teamwork; crisis management; extended care relationships; self-analysis; medical ethics; pastoral care art; spiritual dimensions of human growth and health; counseling psychology and therapy; and applications to grief, death, emotional collapse, injury, individual/family adjustment, and chronic illness situations.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 46 13% N/A
2 Biola University 18 1% $56,956
3 Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 17 6% $20,256
4 Virginia Commonwealth University 15 0% $32,041
5 Criswell College 8 17% $11,450
6 Trinity International University-Illinois 8 2% $46,510
7 Madonna University 6 1% $35,670
8 Pentecostal Theological Seminary 6 13% N/A
9 Moravian College 5 1% $60,164
10 Houston Baptist University 5 1% $46,340
11 George Washington University 4 0% $71,930
12 Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 4 7% N/A
13 St. Thomas University 2 0% $49,276
14 Loyola University Maryland 2 0% $66,200
15 Lipscomb University 2 0% $49,546
16 Regent University 1 0% $29,763
17 Lancaster Bible College 1 0% $37,370

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Clinical Pastoral Counseling/Patient Counseling program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.