2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Religion/Religious Studies

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In 2019-2020, 117 people earned their degree in other religion/religious studies, making the major the 949th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 other religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Religion/Religious Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other religion/religious studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other religion/religious studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other religion/religious studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Other Religion/Religious Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Religion/Religious Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Religion/Religious Studies

#1

Grand Valley State University

Allendale, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$17,646 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Valley State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Religion/Religious Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Grand Valley State University is a large school located in Allendale, Michigan that handed out 6 bachelors’s other religion/religious studies degrees in 2019-2020.

GVSU also made our “Best Other Religion/Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Grand Valley State University is $17,646 for bachelor’s degree other religion/religious studies students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full GVSU Other Religion/Religious Studies Report

#2

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,198 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Other Religion/Religious Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 16 bachelors’s other religion/religious studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Religion/Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Tech is $21,198 for Bachelor’s Degree Other Religion/Religious Studies students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Other Religion/Religious Studies at Virginia Tech

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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