2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Washington

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Washington, there were 8 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,184 and $46,709 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Washington” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Washington

The colleges and universities below are the best for washington master’s degree religious ed students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Washington

#1

Faith International University

Tacoma, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$8,450 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Faith International University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Washington. Faith International University is a small school located in Tacoma, Washington that handed out 8 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Faith, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Faith are $8,450, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Religious Education at Faith International 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

• *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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