2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 184 people earned their degree in philosophy and religious studies, making the major the 320th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, philosophy and religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 82 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy and religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in philosophy and religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southeast Region

1

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s philosophy and religion students in 2020-2021.

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2

Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hampton University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region. Hampton is a small school located in Hampton, Virginia that handed out 2 masters’s philosophy and religion degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Wake Forest, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s philosophy and religion students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies

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

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