2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Youth Ministry is the 616th most popular major in the country with 434 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 45 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Youth Ministry Schools

The youth 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 Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree youth ministry students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Youth Ministry in the Southwest Region

1

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Austin, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin Seminary is a small school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 8 masters’s youth ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Youth Ministry at Austin Seminary

2

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region list. DBU is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s youth ministry degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Youth Ministry at DBU

3

Howard Payne University
Brownwood, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard Payne University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Brownwood, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s youth ministry students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Youth Ministry at Howard Payne University

4

Southwestern Assemblies of God University
Waxahachie, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Southwest Region. Waxahachie, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s youth ministry degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Youth Ministry at Southwestern Assemblies of God University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Youth 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.