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

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In 2020-2021, 184 people earned their degree in philosophy and religion, making the major the 833rd most popular in the United States.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy and religion. To top this list, a school must have a successful philosophy and religion program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. 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.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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 Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Waxahachie, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s philosophy and religion students in 2020-2021.

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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.