by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Religious Studies is the 90th most popular major in the country with 9,470 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Utah, there were 20 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,652 and $24,483 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religious studies.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah. Utah State University is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 12 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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