2022 Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate in Virginia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in Virginia” 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.

Across Virginia, there were 938 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,600 and $26,733 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 109 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 in Virginia” 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 in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia associate degree religion students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Virginia

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$28,903 Average Net Price

$31,495 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Religion Schools for an Associate in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 94 associates’s religion degrees in 2019-2020.

Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Studies Associate Degree Schools in Virginia” list. It costs about $28,903 for virginia associate degree religion students per year to attend Liberty University.

Read full report on Religious Studies at Liberty 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

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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