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2023 Best Value Colleges for Lay Ministry in the Middle Atlantic Region

1 Ranked Colleges

88 Degrees Awarded

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Lay Ministry Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 504 people earned their degree in lay ministry, making the major the 630th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 88 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great lay ministry programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the lay ministry program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Lay Ministry Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Lay Ministry Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Lay Ministry in the Middle Atlantic Region

Westminster Theological Seminary
Glenside, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$43,942 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Westminster Theological Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Lay Ministry Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region. Westminster Theological Seminary is a small school located in Glenside, Pennsylvania that handed out 58 ’s lay ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region lay ministry students list, Westminster Theological Seminary has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Lay Ministry Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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