2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in West Virginia

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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 West Virginia, there were 31 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in religion/religious studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their religion/religious studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in West Virginia

1

Bethany College West Virginia
Bethany, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bethany College West Virginia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia. Located in Bethany, West Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religion students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Religion/Religious Studies at Bethany College West Virginia

2

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia

#6 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia Wesleyan College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Davis & Elkins College
Elkins, West Virginia

#11 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Davis & Elkins College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia list. Davis & Elkins College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Elkins, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Religion/Religious Studies at Davis & Elkins College

4

American Public University System
Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in West Virginia list. American Public University System is located in Charles Town, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s religion degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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