2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 9,470 people earned their degree in religious studies, making the major the 90th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,289 and had an average of $24,431 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 267 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,083 and $31,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Pennsylvania

1

Community College of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Philadelphia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania. Community College of Philadelphia is a fairly large public school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 2 associates’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Community College of Philadelphia Religious Studies Report

2

Cairn University
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cairn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in Pennsylvania list. This small school is located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 6 associates’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Religious Studies at Cairn 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

• *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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