2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Arizona

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona” 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 Arizona, there were 524 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,083 and $38,555 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 206 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,654 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona” ranking, we looked at 3 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Arizona

1

Phoenix Seminary
Scottsdale, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Phoenix Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s theology and religious vocations students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Theology & Religious Vocations at Phoenix Seminary

2

International Baptist College and Seminary
Chandler, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend International Baptist College and Seminary. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona list. IBCS is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chandler, Arizona. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full IBCS Theology & Religious Vocations Report

3

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, Arizona

#4 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Canyon University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arizona list. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 173 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Theology & Religious Vocations at Grand Canyon University

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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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