2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 98 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in lay ministry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their lay ministry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The lay ministry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in the Southeast Region

1

University of Fort Lauderdale
Lauderhill, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Fort Lauderdale. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region list. Lauderhill, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s lay ministry degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of Fort Lauderdale Lay Ministry Report

2

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Southeast Region. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a small school located in Louisville, Kentucky that handed out 0 masters’s lay ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Lay Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry

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.