2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Missionary Studies is the 244th most popular major in the country with 1,220 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, missionary studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,058 and had an average of $17,016 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 35 missionary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,106 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 missionary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in missionary studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their missionary studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Missionary Studies in Tennessee

1

Johnson University
Knoxville, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Johnson University is a small school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 13 masters’s missionary studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Missionary Studies at Johnson University

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Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

#7 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Missionary Studies Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Collegedale, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s missionary studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

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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.