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2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
104 Degrees Awarded
$19,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master's in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that 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 Southeast region, there were 247 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,750 and $31,162 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 104 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Southeast Region

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 20 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Liberty University, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Union Presbyterian Seminary

Richmond, Virginia
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Union Presbyterian Seminary. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Richmond, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious ed degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Union Presbyterian not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Union Presbyterian are $13,190.

Read more about Religious Education at Union Presbyterian

#3

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Regent University landed the #3 spot on the list. Regent is a private not-for-profit institution located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Regent also made our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regent are $17,052, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Religious Education at Regent

#4

Shaw University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Shaw University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree religious ed students list, Shaw University has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Shaw University are $13,188.

Full Shaw University Religious Education Report

#5

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

Emory also made our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676.

Read full report on Religious Education at Emory

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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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