2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major
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Catholic Studies is the 1357th most popular major in the country with 6 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 catholic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in catholic studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their catholic studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Catholic Studies
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Holy Cross landed the #1 spot on the list. Holy Cross is a private not-for-profit institution located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read more about Catholic Studies at Holy Cross
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major list. DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s catholic studies degrees to qualified students.
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 more about Catholic Studies at DePaul University
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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
- *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.