2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) is the 228th most popular major in the country with 1,166 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, theology and religious vocations (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,580 and had an average of $31,756 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 111 theology and religious vocations (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,479 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 theology and religious vocations (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in theology and religious vocations (other). This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in theology and religious vocations (other).

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree religious vocations students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) in California

1

Simpson University
Redding, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Simpson University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Redding, California, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s religious vocations degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fresno Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Vocations Major in California list. Fresno Pacific is a small school located in Fresno, California that handed out 2 bachelors’s religious vocations degrees 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%.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) at Fresno Pacific

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations (Other)

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.