2023 Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Georgia, there were 360 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,918 and $25,045 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in philosophy and religious studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in philosophy and religious studies.

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Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia doctor’s degree philosophy & religious studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religious Studies in Georgia

1

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate. Emory is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 27 doctorate’s philosophy and religious studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Philosophy & Religious Studies at Emory University

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Philosophy & Religious Studies Major in Georgia for a Doctorate list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s philosophy and religious studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Georgia Philosophy & Religious Studies Report

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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

• *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.