2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in District of Columbia

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

Across District of Columbia, there were 24 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Relgious Ed Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious education. To top this list, a school must have a successful religious education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Relgious Ed Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree relgious ed students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in District of Columbia

1

Wesley Theological Seminary
Washington, District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Relgious Ed Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wesley Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. Wesley Theological Seminary is a small school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 21 masters’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Religious Education at Wesley Theological Seminary

2

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Relgious Ed Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. CUA is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 2 masters’s relgious ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Catholic University of America 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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