2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” 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.
Across the Southeast region, there were 247 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,750 and $31,162 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered 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.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the religious education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lee University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Cleveland, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religious ed degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.
Lee University also made our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $17,696 for southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students per year to attend Lee University.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Baptist College of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Graceville, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.
BCF also took the #5 spot in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for BCF is $10,288 for southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity International University - Florida landed the #3 spot on the list. Miramar, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religious ed degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.
Trinity International University - Florida not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,383 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Ed students per year to attend Trinity International University - Florida.
The student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia International University landed the #4 spot on the list. Columbia International University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
CIU also took the #3 spot in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend CIU is $18,004 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Ed students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Asbury University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Asbury is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wilmore, Kentucky. It awarded 1 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.
Asbury also made our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $27,631 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Ed students per year to attend Asbury University.
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Toccoa Falls College landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. This small school is located in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Toccoa Falls, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,433 for southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students per year to attend Toccoa Falls College.
Campbellsville University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. Campbellsville University is located in Campbellsville, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s religious ed degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students list, Campbellsville University has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Campbellsville University is $17,689 for southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students.
With a ranking of #8, Lindsey Wilson College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Lindsey Wilson College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Columbia, Kentucky. It awarded 8 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students list, Lindsey Wilson College has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lindsey Wilson College is $15,435 for southeast region bachelor’s degree religious ed students.
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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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