by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 434 people earned their degree in youth ministry, making the major the 616th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 45 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in youth ministry. That schools that top this list have a program in youth ministry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree youth ministry students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lubbock Christian University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Randall University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region list. Randall University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Moore, Oklahoma. It awarded 1 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard Payne University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region list. Brownwood, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s youth ministry degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma Baptist University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region. OBU is a small school located in Shawnee, Oklahoma that handed out 2 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Assemblies of God University landed the #5 spot on the list. Southwestern Assemblies of God University is located in Waxahachie, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees to qualified students.
Full Southwestern Assemblies of God University Youth Ministry Report
East Texas Baptist University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. East Texas Baptist University is located in Marshall, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Youth Ministry at East Texas Baptist University
With a ranking of #7, Southern Nazarene University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region list. SNU is located in Bethany, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s youth ministry degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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