2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Religion/Religious Studies is the 189th most popular major in the country with 3,626 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 430 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religion/religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religion/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 the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s religion students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Religion/Religious Studies at Community College of Philadelphia

2

Cairn University
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cairn University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 3 associates’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Religion/Religious Studies at Cairn University

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies

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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