2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut

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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 Connecticut, there were 97 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,552 and $24,636 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Connecticut

#1

Trinity College

Hartford, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$34,460 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Religion Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hartford, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religion degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Trinity Bantams not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. It costs about $34,460 for Connecticut Bachelor’s Degree Religion students per year to attend Trinity Bantams.

The low student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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