2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Great Lakes Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$26,200
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, there were 292 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,278 and $24,114 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religious education.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree religious ed students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity International University - Illinois. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region. TIU Illinois is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Deerfield, Illinois. It awarded 5 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Religious Education at TIU Illinois
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Andrews University landed the #2 spot on the list. Andrews is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It awarded 1 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Religious Education at Andrews
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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
- *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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