2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,417 people earned their degree in religious education, making the major the 216th most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 466 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,606 and $31,934 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 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 Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Southwest Region

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Randall University
Moore, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Randall University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Moore, Oklahoma, and it awarded 1 associates’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

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Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dallas Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 27 associates’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

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• 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.

Credits

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