2022 Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Religious Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 9,704 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,163 and had an average of $28,712 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1,187 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the religious studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Studies

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$28,903 Average Net Price

$31,495 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate list. Liberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 94 associates’s religion degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Liberty University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Religious Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Liberty University is $28,903 for Associate Degree Religion students.

Read full report on Religious Studies at Liberty University

#2

Cairn University

Langhorne, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$21,859 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cairn University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate. This small school is located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 associates’s religion degrees in 2019-2020.

Cairn also took the #2 spot in our “Best Religious Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $21,859 for Associate Degree Religion students per year to attend Cairn.

Full Cairn Religious Studies Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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