2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in 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 Virginia, there were 907 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree religion students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in Virginia

1

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, Virginia

#1 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Virginia - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Virginia. University of Virginia - Main Campus is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 masters’s religion degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full University of Virginia - Main Campus Religion/Religious Studies Report

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Virginia. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 778 masters’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Liberty University Religion/Religious Studies Report

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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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