2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Religious Education is the 216th most popular major in the country with 1,417 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, religious education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,694 and had an average of $27,203 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 292 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,278 and $24,114 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their religious education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree religious ed students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Great Lakes Region

1

Veritas Baptist College
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Veritas Baptist College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 6 associates’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Religious Education at VBC

2

Allegheny Wesleyan College
Salem, Ohio

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Allegheny Wesleyan College landed the #2 spot on the list. Allegheny Wesleyan College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Salem, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Religious Education at Allegheny Wesleyan

2

Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Mount Vernon, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Vernon Nazarene University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and it awarded 8 associates’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Religious Education at Mount Vernon Nazarene University

2

Kuyper College
Grand Rapids, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kuyper College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s religious ed students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Kuyper College Religious Education Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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