2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

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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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 14 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Nazarene Bible College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nazarene Bible College landed the #1 spot on the list. Nazarene Bible College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It awarded 3 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Religious Education at Nazarene Bible College

2

Northwest Nazarene University
Nampa, Idaho

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #2 spot on the list. Nampa, Idaho is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religious ed degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Northwest Nazarene University Religious Education Report

3

Boise Bible College
Boise, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boise Bible College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Boise Bible College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boise, Idaho. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Religious Education at Boise Bible College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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