2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Maine, there were 10 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful religious studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Maine

1

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine

#1 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bowdoin College is a small school located in Brunswick, Maine that handed out 7 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Religious Studies at Bowdoin College

2

Bates College
Lewiston, Maine

#2 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bates College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s list. Bates College is located in Lewiston, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s religion degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Religious Studies at Bates

3

Colby College
Waterville, Maine

#3 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colby College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Religion Major in Maine for a Bachelor’s list. Colby is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waterville, Maine. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Religious Studies at Colby

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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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