2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Arkansas

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Arkansas, there were 137 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,728 and $21,691 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in theology and religious vocations. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in theology and religious vocations.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The theology & religious vocations 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 “Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s”.

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Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in Arkansas

1

Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

#2 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harding University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 masters’s theology and religious vocations degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Full Harding Theology & Religious Vocations Report

2

Ecclesia College
Springdale, Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Theology & Religious Vocations Major in Arkansas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ecclesia College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Springdale, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 16 diplomas to qualified masters’s theology and religious vocations students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 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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