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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Plains States Region

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$26,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Religious Education is the 215th most popular major in the country with 1,336 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Across the Plains States region, there were 108 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,100 and $30,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious education programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The religious ed 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 “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Plains States Region

#1

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

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 in the Plains States Region list. Crown is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota. It awarded 4 associates’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Crown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $26,396 for plains states region associate degree religious ed students per year to attend Crown 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

  • *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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