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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 27,459 people earned their degree in theology and religious vocations, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States. 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 Arkansas, there were 137 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,728 and $21,691 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,707 and $16,924 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in theology and religious vocations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their theology and religious vocations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas”.

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

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Williams Baptist University
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

#24 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Williams Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas list. WBU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. It awarded 5 associates’s theology and religious vocations degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Williams Baptist University Theology & Religious Vocations Report

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Ecclesia College
Springdale, Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Ecclesia College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Springdale, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified associates’s theology and religious vocations students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations at Ecclesia 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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