2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Religious Ed Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,336 people earned their degree in religious education, making the major the 215th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, religious education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,663 and had an average of $31,603 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great religious education programs and 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 religious education 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 Religious Ed Schools for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education

#1

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$26,396 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Crown College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate list. Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s religious ed degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Crown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Crown is $26,396 for associate degree religious ed students.

Read more about Religious Education at Crown College

#2

Boise Bible College

Boise, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$20,185 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boise Bible College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate list. Boise Bible College is located in Boise, Idaho and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 associates’s religious ed degrees to qualified students.

Boise Bible College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $20,185 for associate degree religious ed students per year to attend Boise Bible College.

The impressive 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.

Full Boise Bible College Religious Education Report

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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