2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 18 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the New England Region

1

Hebrew College
Newton Centre, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hebrew College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region. Hebrew College is a small school located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts that handed out 10 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 1 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 Hebrew College

2

Elms College
Chicopee, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elms College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and it awarded 2 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Religious Education at Elms College

3

Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary
South Hamilton, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the New England Region list. Gordon - Conwell Seminary is a private not-for-profit institution located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

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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

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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