2024 Best Christian Studies Master's Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
293Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in christian studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #314 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for christian studies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 293 master's degrees in christian studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Christian Studies School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of christian studies for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality christian studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to christian studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of christian studies students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized christian studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for christian studies students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Christian Studies Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Christian Studies in the United States
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for christian studies students seeking a a master's degree.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).