by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia” ranking - to help you make that 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 Virginia, there were 63 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,007 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,633 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religious education.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia doctor’s degree religious ed students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia list. Liberty University is a large school located in Lynchburg, Virginia that handed out 18 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Union Presbyterian Seminary landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s religious ed students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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