2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 69 people earned their degree in worship ministry, making the major the 1041st most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 worship ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in worship ministry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their worship ministry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree worship ministry students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Worship Ministry

1

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s worship ministry students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Worship Ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

2

California Baptist University
Riverside, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California Baptist University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major. California Baptist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Riverside, California. It awarded 11 masters’s worship ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Read full report on Worship Ministry at California Baptist University

3

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major list. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It awarded 3 masters’s worship ministry degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Worship Ministry at SEBTS

3

Cedarville University
Cedarville, Ohio

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Worship Ministry Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Cedarville University landed the #3 spot on the list. Cedarville is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cedarville, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on Worship Ministry at Cedarville University

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.