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

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In 2019-2020, 178 people earned their degree in philosophy and religious studies, making the major the 320th most popular in the United States. 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.

Across North Carolina, there were 12 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the philosophy and religious studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in North Carolina

#1

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is located in Wake Forest, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s philosophy and religion degrees to qualified students.

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

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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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

• *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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