2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Iowa (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Theology & Religious Vocations is the 25th most popular major in the country with 26,872 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, theology and religious vocations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,203 and had an average of $35,660 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 227 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,000 and $24,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 81 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent theology and religious vocations programs, but they also 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 theology and religious vocations program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree theology & religious vocations students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Iowa (With Aid)

#1

University of Dubuque

Dubuque, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$26,748 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dubuque. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid list. Dubuque, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s theology and religious vocations degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Dubuque is $26,748 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Theology & Religious Vocations students with aid.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations at UD

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations (With Aid)

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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