2024 Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia
2
Ranked Colleges
344
Degrees Awarded
$27,100
Avg Net Price*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biblical Studies is the 146th most popular major in the country with 4,119 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, biblical studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,790 and had an average of $26,342 in loans still to pay off.
Across Virginia, there were 344 biblical studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,121 and $27,098 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biblical studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biblical 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 biblical 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Biblical Studies in Virginia
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Liberty University is a large school located in Lynchburg, Virginia that handed out 250 ’s bible degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Liberty University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biblical Studies Schools in Virginia” ranking. It costs about $29,382 for virginia bible students per year to attend Liberty University.
Read full report on Biblical Studies at Liberty University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Bible Schools in Virginia list. Regent University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It awarded 44 ’s bible degrees in 2020-2021.
Regent also took the #2 spot in our “Best Biblical Studies Schools in Virginia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Regent University is $24,888 for Virginia Bible students.
Full Regent University Biblical 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
- *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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