2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Christian Studies in the Far Western US Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Christian Studies is the 495th most popular major in the country with 723 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 89 Christian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 Christian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Christian studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Christian studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree christian studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Christian Studies in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific Rim Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pacific Rim Christian University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Christian Studies at Pacific Rim Christian University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Santa Clara University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Santa Clara, California, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified masters’s Christian studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read more about Christian Studies at SCU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Simpson University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Christian Studies Major in the Far Western US Region. Simpson U is a small school located in Redding, California that handed out 3 masters’s Christian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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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.
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