2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Iowa

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Religious Education is the 358th most popular major in the country with 1,417 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Iowa, there were 6 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious education. That schools that top this list have a program in religious education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Iowa

1

Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary
Ankeny, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa list. This small school is located in Ankeny, Iowa, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full FBBC&TS Religious Education Report

2

Northwestern College
Orange City, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Relgious Ed Major in Iowa list. Located in Orange City, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s relgious ed students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education

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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