2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 6 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. OC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 4 masters’s philosophy and religion degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on General Philosophy & Religious Studies at OC
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 0 masters’s philosophy and religion degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Philosophy & Religious Studies at University of St. Thomas
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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
- *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.
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