2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Religion Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Georgia, there were 135 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,300 and $41,250 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 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 Doctorate in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religion Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Georgia

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$55,512 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia list. Emory University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 15 doctorate’s religion degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Emory, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Religious Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676.

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#1

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$27,476 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia list. UGA is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 1 doctorate’s religion degrees in 2019-2020.

UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Religious Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Georgia are $27,476, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Religious Studies at University of Georgia

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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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