2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in Minnesota

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In 2020-2021, 723 people earned their degree in Christian studies, making the major the 495th most popular in the United States.

Across Minnesota, there were 44 Christian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 Christian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,071 and $28,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in Minnesota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Christian studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Christian studies.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota bachelor’s degree christian studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Christian Studies in Minnesota

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Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota landed the #1 spot on the list. SMU MN is a private not-for-profit institution located in Winona, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 more about Christian Studies at SMU MN

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The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, Minnesota

#7 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, The College of Saint Scholastica landed the #2 spot on the list. St. Scholastica is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Duluth, Minnesota. It awarded 1 bachelors’s Christian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full St. Scholastica Christian Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Christian Studies in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Christian 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.

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