2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Colorado

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Theology & Religious Vocations is the 26th most popular major in the country with 27,459 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, theology and religious vocations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,020 and had an average of $26,322 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 369 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,395 and $43,034 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 43 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,095 and $24,621 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in theology and religious vocations. That schools that top this list have a program in theology and religious vocations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado associate degree theology & religious vocations students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Colorado

1

Colorado Christian University
Lakewood, Colorado

#11 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lakewood, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s theology and religious vocations degrees to 42 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations at CCU

2

Nazarene Bible College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nazarene Bible College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Colorado list. Nazarene Bible College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Theology & Religious Vocations at Nazarene Bible College

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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.

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