by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,417 people earned their degree in religious education, making the major the 358th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 139 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 5 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree relgious ed students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D’spinka. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Brooklyn, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 32 degrees to qualified bachelors’s relgious ed students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Religious Education at Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D’spinka
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Messiah University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Messiah is a small school located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania that handed out 16 bachelors’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Brooklyn, New York. It awarded 0 bachelors’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Religious Education at Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington Adventist University landed the #3 spot on the list. Takoma Park, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s relgious ed degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Religious Education at Washington Adventist University
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, La Roche University landed the #3 spot on the list. La Roche University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 bachelors’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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