2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Minnesota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Minnesota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Minnesota, there were 69 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $30,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,071 and $28,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. That schools that top this list have a program in religious education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Minnesota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Minnesota

1

Crown College
Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota

#11 overall quality in Minnesota

$30,125 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Crown College landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religious ed degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Crown Religious Education Report

2

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Minnesota. Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Winona, Minnesota. It awarded 0 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full SMU MN Religious Education Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Plains States Region
• 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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