2022 Best Value Religious Vocations Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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 Religious Vocations Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) is the 221st most popular major in the country with 1,274 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, theology and religious vocations (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,430 and had an average of $40,848 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 128 theology and religious vocations (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,500 and $38,750 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 theology and religious vocations (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality theology and religious vocations (other) programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theology and religious vocations (other) program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religious Vocations Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree religious vocations students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma Baptist University

Shawnee, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$21,446 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Vocations Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma Baptist University is located in Shawnee, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s religious vocations degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OBU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $21,446 for southwest region associate degree religious vocations students per year to attend Oklahoma Baptist University.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) at Oklahoma Baptist University

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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

• *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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