2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religious Studies in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Philosophy & Religious Studies is the 28th most popular major in the country with 19,993 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, philosophy and religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,946 and had an average of $22,275 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 289 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,425 and $25,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,342 and $21,173 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy and religious studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their philosophy and religious studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee associate degree philosophy & religious studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religious Studies in Tennessee

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Lane College
Jackson, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lane College landed the #1 spot on the list. Lane College is located in Jackson, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s philosophy and religious studies degrees to qualified students.

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Union University
Jackson, Tennessee

#8 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Union University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Tennessee list. This small school is located in Jackson, Tennessee, and it awarded 16 associates’s philosophy and religious studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for 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.