2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,336 people earned their degree in religious education, making the major the 351st most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the religious education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education

#1

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$26,396 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Crown College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate list. This small school is located in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota, and it awarded 4 associates’s relgious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Crown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Crown is $26,396 for Associate Degree Relgious Ed students.

Read full report on Religious Education at Crown

#2

Boise Bible College

Boise, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$20,185 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boise Bible College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Relgious Ed Schools for an Associate. Located in Boise, Idaho, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified associates’s relgious ed students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Boise Bible College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Boise Bible College is $20,185 for associate degree relgious ed students.

The impressive 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.

Read more about Religious Education at Boise Bible College

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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