2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Kentucky

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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 Kentucky, there were 74 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $22,421 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Kentucky” ranking looked at 2 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 Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky master’s degree religious ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Kentucky

1

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Kentucky list. SBTS is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 4 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Religious Education at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

2

Asbury Theological Seminary
Wilmore, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Asbury Theological Seminary. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Kentucky list. Located in Wilmore, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Asbury Theological Seminary Religious Education Report

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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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