2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology is the 448th most popular major in the country with 1,220 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 51 missions/missionary studies and missiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 missions/missionary studies and missiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in missions/missionary studies and missiology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in missions/missionary studies and missiology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree missions/missionary studies and missiology students.

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology in the Southwest Region

1

Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas, Texas

#15 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.

Read full report on Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology at DTS Dallas

2

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dallas Baptist University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology at Dallas Baptist University

3

Southwestern Assemblies of God University
Waxahachie, Texas

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Assemblies of God University landed the #3 spot on the list. Southwestern Assemblies of God University is located in Waxahachie, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology at Southwestern Assemblies of God University

4

Abilene Christian University
Abilene, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Abilene Christian University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Abilene Christian University is a small school located in Abilene, Texas that handed out 2 masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology at Abilene Christian

5

Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oral Roberts University landed the #5 spot on the list. Tulsa, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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6

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

With a ranking of #6, Houston Baptist University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s missions/missionary studies and missiology students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Missions/Missionary Studies & Missiology

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.