2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in Michigan

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Lay Ministry is the 630th most popular major in the country with 504 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Michigan, there were 107 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,004 and $27,379 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in lay ministry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in lay ministry.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan

The colleges and universities below are the best for michigan bachelor’s degree lay ministry students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in Michigan

1

Grace Christian University
Wyoming, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grace Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan list. Grace is located in Wyoming, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 28 bachelors’s lay ministry degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Lay Ministry at Grace Christian University

2

Calvin University
Grand Rapids, Michigan

#7 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Calvin University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s lay ministry students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Lay Ministry at Calvin

3

Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan

#20 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Madonna University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Livonia, Michigan, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s lay ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

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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.