2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religion in the Southwest Region

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Philosophy & Religion is the 833rd most popular major in the country with 184 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 6 philosophy and religion graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 philosophy and religion graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in philosophy and religion. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their philosophy and religion program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religion in the Southwest Region

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 2 bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Philosophy & Religion at Arizona State University - Tempe

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Southwestern Assemblies of God University
Waxahachie, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region. Southwestern Assemblies of God University is a small school located in Waxahachie, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southwestern Assemblies of God University Philosophy & Religion Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religion

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Fyodor Bronnikov.