2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Philosophy & Religious Studies is the 320th most popular major in the country with 178 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, philosophy and religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 128 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in philosophy and religious studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent philosophy and religious studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the philosophy and religious studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies

#1

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. Wake Forest, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

SEBTS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Philosophy & Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full SEBTS General Philosophy & Religious Studies Report

#2

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington

#3 in overall quality

$15,397 Average Net Price

$29,685 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s. Ellensburg, Washington is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CWU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Philosophy & Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend CWU is $15,397 for bachelor’s degree philosophy & religion students.

Full CWU General Philosophy & Religious Studies Report

#3

Colgate University

Hamilton, New York

#2 in overall quality

$25,834 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colgate University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s. Hamilton, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Colgate did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Philosophy & Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $25,834 for bachelor’s degree philosophy & religion students per year to attend Colgate University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Philosophy & Religious Studies at Colgate

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.

Credits

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

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